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The Ludwig Prandtl Ring is the highest award of the
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt German Society for Aeronautics and Astronautics (DGLR; german: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt - Lilienthal-Oberth e.V.) is a German aerospace society. It was founded in 1912 under the name of ''Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für ...
(German Society for Aeronautics and Astronautics), awarded "for outstanding contribution in the field of aerospace engineering". The award is named in honour of
Ludwig Prandtl Ludwig Prandtl (4 February 1875 – 15 August 1953) was a German fluid dynamicist, physicist and aerospace scientist. He was a pioneer in the development of rigorous systematic mathematical analyses which he used for underlying the science of ...
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Recipients

* 1957
Theodore von Kármán Theodore von Kármán ( hu, ( szőllőskislaki) Kármán Tódor ; born Tivadar Mihály Kármán; 11 May 18816 May 1963) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer, and physicist who was active primarily in the fields of aeronaut ...
* 1958 Albert Betz * 1959
Claudius Dornier Claude (Claudius) Honoré Désiré Dornier (born in Kempten im Allgäu on 14 May 1884 – 5 December 1969) was a German-French airplane designer and founder of Dornier GmbH. His notable designs include the 12-engine Dornier Do X flying boa ...
* 1960
Frederick Handley Page Sir Frederick Handley Page, CBE, FRAeS (15 November 1885 – 21 April 1962) was an English industrialist who was a pioneer in the aircraft industry and became known as the father of the heavy bomber. His company Handley Page Limited was ...
* 1961
Henrich Focke Henrich Focke (8 October 1890 – 25 February 1979) was a German aviation pioneer from Bremen and also a co-founder of the Focke-Wulf company. He is best known as the inventor of the Fw 61, the first successful German helicopter. Biography ...
* 1962 * 1963 * 1964 * 1965
Jakob Ackeret Jakob Ackeret, FRAeS (17 March 1898 – 27 March 1981) was a Swiss aeronautical engineer. He is widely viewed as one of the foremost aeronautics experts of the 20th century. Birth and education Jakob Ackeret was born in 1898 in Switzerland. He ...
* 1966
Adolf Busemann Adolf Busemann (20 April 1901 – 3 November 1986) was a German aerospace engineer and influential Nazi-era pioneer in aerodynamics, specialising in supersonic airflows. He introduced the concept of swept wings and, after emigrating in 1947 to t ...
* 1967
Giuseppe Gabrielli Giuseppe Gabrielli (26 February 1903 – 29 November 1987) was an Italian aeronautics engineer. He is famous as the designer of numerous Italian military aircraft, including the Fiat G.50 Freccia and G.55 World War II fighters. He was born in C ...
* 1968 Hans W. Liepmann * 1969
Hermann Schlichting Hermann Schlichting (22 September 1907 – 15 June 1982) was a German fluid dynamics engineer. Life and work Hermann Schlichting studied from 1926 till 1930 mathematics, physics and applied mechanics at the University of Jena, Vienne and G ...
* 1970
Dietrich Küchemann Dietrich Küchemann CBE FRS FRAeS (11 September 1911 – 23 February 1976) was a German aerodynamicist who made several important contributions to the advancement of high-speed flight. He spent most of his career in the UK, where he is be ...
* 1971 Robert Legendre * 1972
Ludwig Bölkow Ludwig Bölkow (30 June 1912 – 25 July 2003) was one of the aeronautical pioneers of Germany. Background Born in Schwerin, in then north-central Germany, in 1912, Bölkow was the son of a foreman employed by Fokker, one of the leading air ...
* 1973 * 1974
William R. Sears William Rees Sears (March 1, 1913 – October 12, 2002) was an aeronautical engineer and educator who worked at Caltech, Northrop Aircraft, Cornell University (as the J. L. Given Professor of Engineering), and the University of Arizona. He was a ...
* 1975 August W. Quick * 1976
Alec David Young Alec David Young (15 August 1913 – 27 January 2005) was a British aeronautical engineer. Alec Young was the son of refugees from Russia who raised him in Stepney, London. He attended Central Foundation Boys' School for his secondary educ ...
* 1977 * 1978
Robert Thomas Jones Robert Thomas Jones may refer to: * Robert Jones (Labour politician) (1874–1940), Welsh quarryman, trade unionist and politician * Robert Thomas Jones (engineer) (1910–1999), aerodynamicist and aeronautical engineer {{hndis, Jones, Robert Thom ...
* 1979 Fritz Schultz-Grunow * 1980 Herbert A. Wagner * 1981 * 1982
Kurt Magnus Kurt Magnus (September 8, 1912 - December 12, 2003) was a German scientist, expert in the field of applied mechanics, a pioneer of mechatronics, modern navigation technology and inertial sensors.James Lighthill Sir Michael James Lighthill (23 January 1924 – 17 July 1998) was a British applied mathematician, known for his pioneering work in the field of aeroacoustics and for writing the Lighthill report on artificial intelligence. Biography J ...
* 1984 Bernhard H. Goethert * 1985 * 1986
Roger Béteille Roger Béteille (28 August 1921 – 14 June 2019) was a French aeronautical engineer and businessman. Regarded as one of the founding fathers of the company, he is known for his contributions towards Airbus, which contributed towards the airline ...
* 1987
Holt Ashley Holt Ashley (January 10, 1923May 9, 2006) was an American aeronautical engineer notable for his seminal research of aeroelasticity.Hubert Ludwieg * 1991 * 1992
Hans von Ohain Hans Joachim Pabst von Ohain (14 December 191113 March 1998) was a German physicist, engineer, and the designer of the first operational jet engine. Together with Frank Whittle he is called the "father of the jet engine". His first test unit ran ...
* 1993 * 1994
Josef Singer Josef ("Josi") Singer (יוסף זינגר; August 24, 1923 – November 12, 2009) is a former president and professor of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Biography Singer was born in Vienna. He and his family immigrated to Haifa, Isra ...
* 1995 * 1996 Harvard Lomax * 1997 * 1998 Jürgen Zierep * 1999
Hans G. Hornung Hans G. Hornung is an emeritus Clarence Johnson, C. L. "Kelly" Johnson Professor of Aeronautics and Director of the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology (GALCIT). He received his bachelor (1960) and master ...
* 2000 Julius C. Rotta * 2001 Not awarded * 2002 Boris Laschka * 2003 * 2004 Egon Krause * 2005 Wilhelm Schneider * 2006 * 2007 Peter Hamel * 2008 Yuri Kachanov * 2009 Siegfried Wagner * 2010 Michael Gaster * 2011 Not awarded * 2012
John W. Hutchinson John W. Hutchinson (born April 10, 1939) is the Abbott and James Lawrence Research Professor of Engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. He works in the field of solid mechanics concerned with a broad ...
* 2013 * 2014 Dietrich Hummel * 2015 * 2016 Egbert Torenbeek * 2017 Helmut Sobieczky * 2018
Hermann Fasel Hermann or Herrmann may refer to: * Hermann (name), list of people with this name * Arminius, chieftain of the Germanic Cherusci tribe in the 1st century, known as Hermann in the German language * Éditions Hermann, French publisher * Hermann, Miss ...
* 2019
Ann Dowling Dame Ann Patricia Dowling (born 15 July 1952) is a British mechanical engineer who researches combustion, acoustics and vibration, focusing on efficient, low-emission combustion and reduced road vehicle and aircraft noise. Dowling is a Deput ...


See also

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List of aviation awards This list of aviation awards is an index to articles about notable awards given in the field of aviation. It includes a list of awards for winners of competitions or records, a list of awards by the Society of Experimental Test Pilots, various oth ...
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List of engineering awards This list of engineering awards is an index to articles about notable awards for achievements in engineering. It includes aerospace engineering, chemical engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering, electronic engineering, structural e ...


References

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In the picture the ring can just be ... {{cite book , last = Eckert , first = M. , title = Ludwig Prandtl – Strömungsforscher und Wissenschaftsmanager: Ein unverstellter Blick auf sein Leben , publisher = Springer Berlin Heidelberg , year = 2016 , isbn = 978-3-662-49918-4 , url = https://books.google.com/books?id=r5a-DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA364 , language = de , access-date = 11 February 2018 , page = 364 , quote = 1957 hatte die Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Luftfahrt (WGL) erstmals den „Ludwig Prandtl Ring“ als höchste Auszeichnung an Forscher verliehen, die sich durch „hervorragende eigene Arbeiten in den Flugwissenschaften in all ihren Disziplinen“ verdient gemacht hatten. Der erste „Ludwig Prandtl Ring“ ging an Kármán, der zweite an Betz. Unter den Preisträgern waren aber nicht nur Prandtl-Schüler, sondern auch Flugzeugkonstrukteure wie Claude Dornier und Ludwig Bölkow, ... {{cite web , url = http://www.dglr.de/auszeichnungen_und_ehrungen/aktuelle_preistraeger/index.html , title = DGLR: Aktuelle Preisträger , publisher = Dglr.de , accessdate = 26 July 2015 {{cite book , title = Germany , issue = v. 4 , year = 1959 , url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Qu4JAQAAIAAJ , access-date = 11 February 2018 , page = 72 , quote = Gerhard Domagk Professor Claudius Dornier, Honorary Dr. of Engineering, was honoured with the Ludwig Prandtl Ring by the Scientific Society for Aeronautics on the occasion of his 75th birthday. This honour came in recognition of Dornier's scientific, technical, and organizational achievements and his extraordinary success in the application of all-metal construction as well as in the development of giant flying boats. Dornier, who lives in Zug (Switzerland) today, became a co-worker ... {{cite book , last = Hager , first = W. , title = Hydraulicians in Europe 1800–2000 , publisher = CRC Press , series = IAHR Monographs , issue = v. 2 , year = 2014 , isbn = 978-1-4665-5498-6 , url = https://books.google.com/books?id=6EF9BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA1176 , access-date = 11 February 2018 , page = 1176 , quote = After World War II Rotta came into contact with Albert Betz (1885–1968) of Göttingen University who was astonished to note that Rotta had no university degree. The latter thus worked ... Two noteworthy papers published in the early 1950s relate to the turbulent velocity distribution close to walls, thereby extending the approach of Prandtl and von Karman. The works over the ... He was awarded in 2000 the Ludwig-Prandtl Ring for his achievements in fluid mechanics. {{cite web , url = http://www.dglr.de/?id=2643 , title = DGLR: Auszeichnung – Ludwig-Prandtl-Ring , publisher = Dglr.de , accessdate = 26 July 2015 {{cite book , last = Hirschel , first = E.H. , last2 = Prem , first2 = H. , last3 = Madelung , first3 = G. , title = Aeronautical Research in Germany: From Lilienthal until Today , publisher = Springer Berlin Heidelberg , series = Engineering online library , year = 2012 , isbn = 978-3-642-18484-0 , url = https://books.google.com/books?id=eJ7oCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA45 , access-date = 11 February 2018 , page = 45 , quote = Albert Betz, born in Schweinfurt on December 25, 1885. 1905 he studies mechanical engineering at the Institute of Technology (TH) Munich and has, thereafter, his practical training at the “Germanian Dockyard” (“Germania-Werft”) in Kiel. 1906 he studies nautical engineering at the Institute of Technology (TH) Berlin and, after some time ... 1958 recipient of the Ludwig-Prandtl-Ring. 1968 he dies in Göttingen on April 16. and provided the basics for calculating ... {{cite book , last = Storck , first = R. , title = Flying Wings: die historische Entwicklung der Schwanzlosen- und Nurflögelflugzeuge der Welt , publisher = Bernard & Graefe , year = 2003 , isbn = 978-3-7637-6242-2 , url = https://books.google.com/books?id=iPUfAQAAIAAJ , language = de , access-date = 11 February 2018 , page = 201 , quote = Philippe Poisson-Quinton, Paris Jahrgang 1919, Studium an der Sorbonne in Paris, Schule des Traveaux Publics und höhere Schule für Luftfahrrtechnik, Paris, langjähriger Mitarbeiter des Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales (ONERA), zuletzt Direktor für internationale Kooperationen und Senior Advisor, ... 1997 erhielt er für seine Verdienste um die europäische Luftfahrt von der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt den Ludwig Prandtl-Ring verliehen. {{cite book , title = The Engineer , publisher = Morgan-Grampian (Publishers) , issue = v. 211 , year = 1961 , url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Yy5EAQAAIAAJ , access-date = 11 February 2018 , page = 355 , quote = ... for rendering approximate solutions to physical problems uniformly valid.” Professor Dipl.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. E.h. Heinrich Focke, Bremen, will be presented with the Ludwig Prandtl Ringfor 1961. {{cite book , last = Bradfield , first = R. , last2 = Connolly , first2 = M. , last3 = Pragnell , first3 = M.O. , title = The International Yearbook and Statesman's Who's Who , publisher = Bowker British Library Kickout , year = 1975 , isbn = 978-0-610-00500-8 , url = https://books.google.com/books?id=sgHRpmqH8cgC , access-date = 2 May 2019 , page = 93 {{cite book , author = Royal Aeronautical Society , title = Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society , publisher = Royal Aeronautical Society , issue = v. 67 , year = 1963 , url = https://books.google.com/books?id=qlhKAQAAIAAJ , access-date = 2 May 2019 , page = 250 {{cite book , title = Jahrbuch der Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt , publisher = F. Vieweg , year = 1964 , url = https://books.google.com/books?id=a7BPAQAAIAAJ , language = de , access-date = 2 May 2019 , page = 506 , quote = September 1964 in Berlin wurde Prof. Dr.-Ing.‚ Dr. rer. nat. h. c., LL. D. h. c. Ernst Schmidt, emeritierter Ordinarius für TechnischeThermodynamik an der TH München, mit dem Ludwig-Prandtl-Ring für das Jahr 1964 ausgezeichnet. {{cite book , author = Engineers Joint Council , title = Engineers of Distinction , publisher = Engineers Joint Council , issue = v. 1 , year = 1970 , url = https://books.google.com/books?id=raM7AAAAMAAJ , access-date = 2 May 2019 , page = 368 , quote = Dr. Ing. Ernst Schmidt, Munchen 81, BRD 8000; Technische Hochschule Munchen, Professor; born February, 1892. Received ... Eng. 1964; Dechema Medal 1967; Bavarian Order of Merit 1964; Ludwig Prandtl Ring d. Wiss. Ges. f. Luft-u. {{cite book , title = Jahrbuch , year = 1973 , url = https://books.google.com/books?id=c8ggAAAAMAAJ , language = de , access-date = 2 May 2019 , page = 467 , quote = ... gemeinsam mit den Trägern des Ludwig-Prandtl- Ringes beschlossen hat, den Luduig-Prandtl- Ring für das Jahr 1971 an Prof. Robert Legendre , Hohen Wissenschaftlichen Rat des Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales ... {{cite book , last = Blachut , first = J. , last2 = Eschenauer , first2 = H.A. , title = Emerging Methods for Multidisciplinary Optimization , publisher = Springer Vienna , series = CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences , year = 2014 , isbn = 978-3-7091-2756-8 , url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ysUrBAAAQBAJ&pg=PR2 , access-date = 2 May 2019 , page = 2 {{cite book , last = Marquis Who's Who , first = Inc , title = Who's who in the World , publisher = Marquis Who's Who, Inc. , issue = v. 18 , year = 1982 , isbn = 978-0-8379-1106-9 , url = https://books.google.com/books?id=AM0JW06Ek7EC , access-date = 2 May 2019 , page = 891 , quote = QUICK, AUGUST WILHELM, educator; b. ... Technol U. Aachen (W. Ger.) ... Recipient Ludwig-Prandtl Ring, 1975; decorated officer Legion d'Honneur, Order Palmes Académiques (France); great cross of merits with star {{cite book , last = Strute , first = K. , last2 = Doelken , first2 = T. , title = Who's Who in Germany 1982–1983 , publisher = Who's Who the International red series Verlag , series = International Red Series , issue = pt. 1 , year = 1983 , isbn = 978-3-921220-46-7 , url = https://books.google.com/books?id=72dmAAAAMAAJ , access-date = 2 May 2019 , page = 1696 , quote = TRUCKENBRODT Erich Andreas, (Prof. Or. Ing. Dr. Ing. E.h.), aeronautical ... Ludwig-Prandtl-Award (1977); honorary doctor. Techn. Univ. Aachen (1981) ...


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