The Otto Hahn Prize is awarded biennially jointly by the Society of German Chemists (), the German Physical Society () and the city of Frankfurt am Main for outstanding achievement in the field of chemistry, physics or applied engineering science. It was established in 2005 by the merger of the previous Otto Hahn Prize for Chemistry and Physics and the Otto Hahn Prize of the City of Frankfurt am Main. The award is presented in the St. Paul's Church, Frankfurt am Main.
The award named after the German nuclear scientist and Nobel laureate Otto Hahn and consists of a gold medal and a prize of 50,000 euros. It is awarded alternatively for Chemistry and Physics.
Recipients: Otto Hahn Prize for Chemistry and Physics
Recipients: Otto Hahn Prize of the City of Frankfurt am Main
Source:
- 1970: Karl zum Winkel
- 1972: Rudolf Schulten, Physicist and nuclear technologist
- 1974: August Weckesser
- 1976: Adolf Birkhofer
- 1979: Wolfgang Gentner
- 1980: Otto Haxel
- 1982: Walter Greiner
- 1984: Heinz Maier-Leibnitz
- 1986: Klaus Knizia
- 1988: Franz Baumgärtner
- 1992: Olga Aleinikova
- 1994: Willi Wölfli
- 1996: Gottfried Münzenberg, Sigurd Hofmann
- 1998: Hans Blix, Jens Volker Kratz, Norbert Trautmann
- 2000: Hartmut Eickhoff, Thomas Haberer, Gerhard Kraft
- 2005 Theodor W. Hänsch, physics
- 2007 Gerhard Ertl, physics/chemistry
- 2009 Stefan Hell, physics
- 2011 Manfred T. Reetz, chemistry
- 2013 Ferenc Krausz, physics
- 2015 Jürgen Troe, physics
- 2017 , chemistry
- 2019 , chemistry
- 2021 Klaus Blaum, nuclear physics
- 2023 , molecular physiology/chemical biology
- 2025 , quantum physics
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This article is based on a translation of the equivalent article on German Wikipedia