The Lise Meitner Prize for
nuclear physics, established in 2000, is awarded every two years by the
European Physical Society for outstanding work in the fields of experimental, theoretical or applied nuclear science. It is named after
Lise Meitner
Elise Meitner ( , ; 7 November 1878 – 27 October 1968) was an Austrian-Swedish physicist who was one of those responsible for the discovery of the element protactinium and nuclear fission. While working at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute on rad ...
to honour her fundamental contributions to nuclear physics and her courageous and exemplary life.
Recipients
* 2020
Klaus Blaum Klaus Blaum (born 27 December 1971 in Sobernheim, now Bad Sobernheim, Germany) is a German physicist and director at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany.
Life and scientific work
Blaum studied physics at the Johanne ...
, Björn Jonson,
*2018 ,
* 2016
* 2014
Johanna Stachel
Johanna Barbara Stachel (born 3 December 1954 in Munich) is a German nuclear physicist. She is a professor in experimental physics at the University of Heidelberg (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg). Stachel is a former president of the Ge ...
, ,
Paolo Giubellino,
* 2012 ,
Friedrich-Karl Thielemann
Friedrich-Karl "Friedel“ Thielemann (born 17 April 1951 in Mülheim an der Ruhr) is a German-Swiss theoretical astrophysicist.
Thielemann studied at the TH Darmstadt, where he in 1976 he acquired his Diplom. In 1980 he earned his PhD under Wo ...
* 2010
* 2008
Reinhard Stock
Reinhard Stock (born 1938) is a German experimental physicist, specializing in high-energy nuclear physics, heavy-ion physics.
Education and career
Stock studied at Heidelberg University, where he received his doctorate with thesis advisor Rudolf ...
,
Walter Greiner
* 2006 ,
David M. Brink
* 2004 ,
Peter J. Twin
* 2002
Phil Elliott,
* 2000
Peter Armbruster,
Gottfried Münzenberg
Gottfried Münzenberg (born 17 March 1940) is a German physicist.
He studied physics at Justus-Liebig-Universität in Giessen and Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck and completed his studies with a Ph.D. at the University of Giessen, ...
,
Yuri Oganessian
See also
*
List of physics awards
References
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Awards of the European Physical Society
Nuclear physics