Walther Bothe - Honors

Honors

Bothe was awarded a number of honors:

  • Member of the Academy of Sciences of Göttingen
  • Member of the Academy of Sciences of Heidelberg
  • Corresponding Member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences, Leipzig
  • Grand Cross of the Order for Federal Services
  • 1952 – Knight of the Order of Merit for Sciences and the Arts
  • 1953 – Max-Planck-Medaille of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
  • 1954 – Nobel Prize in Physics "for the coincidence method and his discoveries made therewith". Bothe received half of the prize; the other half was awarded to Max Born.

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