title: Ludwig Boltzmann Prize
text: # Ludwig Boltzmann Prize
  
  The Ludwig Boltzmann Prize is awarded by the Austrian Physical Society and honors outstanding achievements in theoretical physics. It is named after the famous Austrian physicist Ludwig Boltzmann.
  
  The prize was established at the annual meeting of the Austrian Physical Society in Innsbruck in 1953. It is awarded every other year, alternating with the Fritz Kohlrausch Prize for experimental physics, to an outstanding theoretical physicist who is usually not older than 35 years. Currently (2011) the prize money is 2500 Euro.
  
  ## Awardees
  
  Source: Austrian Physical Society
  
  | 1957 – Gernot Eder 1965 – K. Baumann 1967 – Heimo G. Latal 1969 – Alfred Bartl and F. Hernegger 1971 – Dieter Flamm 1973 – Bernhard Schnizer 1975 – Helmut Kühnelt 1977 – Gerhard Ecker 1979 – Juergen Hafner and Reinhart Kögerler 1981 – Harald Grosse 1983 – Peter Zoller 1985 – Bernhard Baumgartner 1987 – Fritz Gesztesy 1989 – M. Neumann 1993 – Helmut Ritsch and Monika Ritsch-Marte | 1995 – Claudia Ambrosch-Draxl 1997 – Gerald Teschl 1999 – Thomas Rauscher 2001 – Georg Kresse 2003 – Christof Gattringer 2005 – Andreas Brandhuber 2007 – Peter Rabl 2009 – Andrew Daley 2011 – Barbara Kraus 2013 – Claudiu Genes 2015 – Josef Pradler 2017 – Mikhail Lemeshko 2019 – Maksym Serbyn 2021 – Farokh Mivehvar |
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