Ludwig Prandtl Ring

The Ludwig Prandtl Ring is the highest award of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt (German Society for Aeronautics and Astronautics), awarded "for outstanding contribution in the field of aerospace engineering". The award is named in honour of Ludwig Prandtl.

Recipients

• 1957 Theodore von Kármán^[1]
• 1958 Albert Betz^[2]
• 1959 Claudius Dornier^[3]
• 1960 Frederick Handley Page^[4]
• 1961 Henrich Focke^[5]
• 1962 Hermann Blenk [de]^[6]
• 1963 Maurice Roy (engineer) [de; fr]^[7]
• 1964 Ernst Schmidt (engineer) [de]^[8][9]
• 1965 Jakob Ackeret
• 1966 Adolf Busemann
• 1967 Giuseppe Gabrielli
• 1968 Hans W. Liepmann
• 1969 Hermann Schlichting
• 1970 Dietrich Küchemann
• 1971 Robert Legendre^[10]
• 1972 Ludwig Bölkow
• 1973 Klaus Oswatitsch [de]^[11]
• 1974 William R. Sears
• 1975 August W. Quick^[12]
• 1976 Alec David Young
• 1977 Erich Truckenbrodt [de]^[13]
• 1978 Robert Thomas Jones
• 1979 Fritz Schultz-Grunow
• 1980 Herbert A. Wagner
• 1981 Hans G. Küssner
• 1982 Kurt Magnus
• 1983 James Lighthill
• 1984 Bernhard H. Goethert
• 1985 Luigi Crocco [it]
• 1986 Roger Béteille
• 1987 Holt Ashley
• 1988 Itiro Tani [ja]
• 1989 Karl Wieghardt [de; pt]
• 1990 Hubert Ludwieg
• 1991 Gero Madelung [de]
• 1992 Hans von Ohain
• 1993 Xaver Hafer [de]
• 1994 Josef Singer
• 1995 Werner Albring [de]
• 1996 Harvard Lomax
• 1997 Philippe Poisson-Quinton [fr]^[14]
• 1998 Jürgen Zierep
• 1999 Hans G. Hornung
• 2000 Julius C. Rotta^[15]
• 2001 Not awarded
• 2002 Boris Laschka
• 2003 Klaus Gersten [de]
• 2004 Egon Krause
• 2005 Wilhelm Schneider
• 2006 Richard Eppler [de]
• 2007 Peter Hamel
• 2008 Yuri Kachanov
• 2009 Siegfried Wagner
• 2010 Michael Gaster
• 2011 Not awarded
• 2012 John W. Hutchinson
• 2013 Gottfried Sachs [de]^[16]
• 2014 Dietrich Hummel^[17]
• 2015 Dietmar Hennecke [de]
• 2016 Egbert Torenbeek
• 2017 Helmut Sobieczky
• 2018 Hermann Fasel
• 2019 Ann Dowling

See also

• List of aviation awards
• List of engineering awards