Max Planck - Honors and Awards

Honors and Awards

  • "Pour le Mérite" for Science and Arts 1915 (in 1930 he became chancellor of this order)
  • Nobel Prize in Physics 1918 (awarded 1919)
  • Lorentz Medal 1927
  • Franklin Medal (1927)
  • Adlerschild des Deutschen Reiches (1928), an award from the German Reich President
  • Max Planck medal (1929, together with Einstein)
  • Copley Medal (1929)
  • Planck received honorary doctorates from the universities of Frankfurt, Munich (TH), Rostock, Berlin (TH), Graz, Athens, Cambridge, London, and Glasgow.
  • The asteroid 1069 was named "Stella Planckia" by the International Astronomical Union (1938)

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