Lise Meitner Medal and Prize 2025
Basic data of the distinction
Type of award: Research award or other distinction
Awarded by: Institute of Physics (IOP)
Award given to: Heindel, Tobias; Reiter, Doris; Pranoti Kshirsagar
Announced at: 13/10/2025
Date of awarding: 05/11/2025
Amount of prize money: 1000 GBP
About the distinction
Anlass der Preisverleihung: 2025 IOP Awards Ceremony
Venue of award ceremony: London
Link to the press release of the awarding organisation: https://www.iop.org/about/awards/2025-lise-meitner-medal-and-prize
Link zur Pressemitteilung der Universität Münster: https://www.uni-muenster.de/news/view.php?cmdid=15132
Award winners from the University of Münster
| Heindel, Tobias |
About the award
The "Lise Meitner Medal and Prize" is a Silver Subject Award by the Institute of Physics (IOP). It is awarded every two years for distinguished contributions to physics public engagement, awarded in odd-numbered years. This medal comes with a prize of £1,000 and a certificate. Lise Meitner was an Austrian physicist who worked on radioactivity and nuclear physics. She was the first woman to become a full professor of physics in Germany. In 1944, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to her long-time collaborator Otto Hahn for work on nuclear fission. In the 1990s, the records of the committee that decided on that prize were opened. Several scientists and journalists have called her exclusion “unjust”, and Meitner has received a flurry of posthumous honours, including the naming of chemical element 109 as meitnerium in 1997.
Type of award: Science communication award
Website of the award or committee: https://www.iop.org/about/awards/silver-subject-medals
Zeitraum der Vergabe: since 1990
Awarded Activities & Results
Awarded projects
Duration: 14/04/2024 - 14/04/2026 | 1st Funding period Type of project: Project carried out outside the University of Münster |