Harnack Medal
The highest award which is presented by the Max Planck Society for services to society is the Harnack Medal, first awarded in 1925. Past recipients of the Harnack Medal are
- Peter Gruss 2017
- Hermann Neuhaus 2008
- Lu Yongxiang 2006
- Hubert Markl 2004
- Haim Harari 2001
- Hans F. Zacher 1998
- Michael Sela 1996
- Heinz A. Staab 1996
- Reimar Lüst 1993
- Richard von Weizsäcker 1990
- Hans Merkle 1984
- Kurt Birrenbach 1981
- Walther Gerlach 1974
- Adolf Butenandt 1973
- Carl Wurster 1970
- Alfred Kühn 1965
- Heinrich Lübke 1964
- Otto Heinrich Warburg 1963
- Georg Schreiber 1962
- Erich Kaufmann 1960
- Theodor Heuss 1959
- Otto Hahn 1954
- Gustav Winkler 1953
- Ludwig Prandtl 1936
- Albert Vögler 1936
- Carl Duisberg 1934
- Max Planck 1933
- Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach 1933
- Franz von Mendelssohn 1932
- Carl Correns 1932
- Friedrich Schmidt-Ott 1929
- Fritz Haber 1926
- Adolf von Harnack 1925
