Lorentz Medal is an award given every four years by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. It was established in 1925 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the doctorate of Hendrik Lorentz. This gold medal is given for important contributions to theoretical physics, though in the past there have been some experimentalists among its recipients. Many of the award winners later received a Nobel Prize. The Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) is an organisation dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands. ... Painting of Hendrik Lorentz by Arnhemensis Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (July 18, 1853, Arnhem – February 4, 1928, Haarlem) was a Dutch physicist and the winner of the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on electromagnetic radiation. ... Theoretical physics employs mathematical models in an attempt to understand Nature. ... Sir Edward Appletons medal Photographs of Nobel Prize Medals. ...

Recipients

• 2002 Frank Wilczek
• 1998 Carl E. Wieman and Eric A. Cornell
• 1994 Alexander Polyakov
• 1990 Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
• 1986 Gerard 't Hooft
• 1982 Anatole Abragam
• 1978 Nicolaas Bloembergen
• 1974 John H. van Vleck
• 1970 George Uhlenbeck
• 1966 Freeman J. Dyson
• 1962 Rudolph E. Peierls
• 1958 Lars Onsager
• 1953 Fritz London
• 1947 Hendrik A. Kramers
• 1939 Arnold Sommerfeld
• 1935 Peter Debye
• 1931 Wolfgang Pauli
• 1927 Max Planck

For the Cusco album, see 2002 (album). ... Frank Wilczek at Harvard University Frank Wilczek (born May 15, 1951) is an American physicist of Polish and Italian origin. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Carl Edwin Wieman (born March 26, American physicist of the University of Colorado at Boulder who (with Eric Allin Cornell), in 1995, produced a Bose-Einstein condensate. ... Eric Allin Cornell (born December 19, 1961) is a physicist who, along with Carl E. Wieman, was able to synthesize Bose-Einstein condensate in 1995. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Alexander M. Polyakov is a physicist, formerly at the Landau Institute in Moscow, currently at Princeton University. ... This article is about the year. ... Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (born October 24, 1932) is a French physicist and Nobel laureate. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Gerard t Hooft at Harvard University Gerardus (Gerard) t Hooft (born July 5, 1946) is a professor in theoretical physics at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Anatole Abragam (December 15, 1914 - ), is a French physicist who wrote Principles of Nuclear Magnetism and has made significant contributions to the field of nuclear magnetic resonance. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... Nicolaas Bloembergen (born March 11, 1920) is an Dutch physicist. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1974 calendar). ... John Hasbrouck van Vleck (March 13, 1899 – October 27, 1980) was an American physicist. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... George Eugene Uhlenbeck (1900 - 1988) was a U.S. (Indonesian-born) physicist. ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... Freeman Dyson at Harvard University in 2004 Freeman John Dyson (born December 15, 1923) is an English-born American physicist and mathematician. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lars Onsager (November 27, 1903 – October 5, 1976) was a Norwegian physical chemist, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1953 calendar). ... Fritz Wolfgang London (March 7, 1900–March 30, 1954) was a Jewish German-American physicist for whom the London force is named. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld (December 5, 1868 – April 26, 1951) was a German physicist who introduced the fine-structure constant in 1919. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Peter Joseph William Debye (March 24, 1884 - November 2, 1966) (born Petrus Josephus Wilhelmus Debije) was a Dutch physical chemist. ... 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1931 calendar). ... Wolfgang Pauli Wolfgang Ernst Pauli (April 25, 1900 – December 15, 1958) was an Austrian physicist noted for his work on the theory of spin, and in particular the discovery of the Exclusion principle, which underpins the whole of chemistry. ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Max Planck This article is about Planck, the German physicist. ...

External Links

• Lorentz Medal page at the Instituut-Lorentz