Ludwig Prandtl Ring

German aerospace engineering award

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

References

^ Eckert, M. (2016). Ludwig Prandtl – Strömungsforscher und Wissenschaftsmanager: Ein unverstellter Blick auf sein Leben (in German). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 364. ISBN 978-3-662-49918-4. Retrieved 11 February 2018. 1957 hatte die Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Luftfahrt (WGL) erstmals den „Ludwig Prandtl Ring" als höchste Auszeichnung an Forscher verliehen, die sich durch „hervorragende eigene Arbeiten in den Flugwissenschaften in all ihren Disziplinen" verdient gemacht hatten. Der erste „Ludwig Prandtl Ring" ging an Kármán, der zweite an Betz. Unter den Preisträgern waren aber nicht nur Prandtl-Schüler, sondern auch Flugzeugkonstrukteure wie Claude Dornier und Ludwig Bölkow, ...
^ Hirschel, E.H.; Prem, H.; Madelung, G. (2012). Aeronautical Research in Germany: From Lilienthal until Today. Engineering online library. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 45. ISBN 978-3-642-18484-0. Retrieved 11 February 2018. Albert Betz, born in Schweinfurt on December 25, 1885. 1905 he studies mechanical engineering at the Institute of Technology (TH) Munich and has, thereafter, his practical training at the "Germanian Dockyard" ("Germania-Werft") in Kiel. 1906 he studies nautical engineering at the Institute of Technology (TH) Berlin and, after some time ... 1958 recipient of the Ludwig-Prandtl-Ring. 1968 he dies in Göttingen on April 16. and provided the basics for calculating ...
^ Germany. 1959. p. 72. Retrieved 11 February 2018. Gerhard Domagk Professor Claudius Dornier, Honorary Dr. of Engineering, was honoured with the Ludwig Prandtl Ring by the Scientific Society for Aeronautics on the occasion of his 75th birthday. This honour came in recognition of Dornier's scientific, technical, and organizational achievements and his extraordinary success in the application of all-metal construction as well as in the development of giant flying boats. Dornier, who lives in Zug (Switzerland) today, became a co-worker ...
^ Aeronautics. 1960. p. 131. Retrieved 11 February 2018. ... Sir Frederick Handley Page addresses the Wissenschaftliche Gessellschaft fur Luftfahrt after he had been presented with the Ludwig-Prandtl Ring for 1960, one of the highest of aeronautical distinctions. In the picture the ring can just be ...
^ The Engineer. Morgan-Grampian (Publishers). 1961. p. 355. Retrieved 11 February 2018. ... for rendering approximate solutions to physical problems uniformly valid." Professor Dipl.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. E.h. Heinrich Focke, Bremen, will be presented with the Ludwig Prandtl Ringfor 1961.
^ Bradfield, R.; Connolly, M.; Pragnell, M.O. (1975). The International Yearbook and Statesman's Who's Who. Bowker British Library Kickout. p. 93. ISBN 978-0-610-00500-8. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
^ Royal Aeronautical Society (1963). Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society. Royal Aeronautical Society. p. 250. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
^ Jahrbuch der Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt (in German). F. Vieweg. 1964. p. 506. Retrieved 2 May 2019. September 1964 in Berlin wurde Prof. Dr.-Ing.‚ Dr. rer. nat. h. c., LL. D. h. c. Ernst Schmidt, emeritierter Ordinarius für TechnischeThermodynamik an der TH München, mit dem Ludwig-Prandtl-Ring für das Jahr 1964 ausgezeichnet.
^ Engineers Joint Council (1970). Engineers of Distinction. Engineers Joint Council. p. 368. Retrieved 2 May 2019. Dr. Ing. Ernst Schmidt, Munchen 81, BRD 8000; Technische Hochschule Munchen, Professor; born February, 1892. Received ... Eng. 1964; Dechema Medal 1967; Bavarian Order of Merit 1964; Ludwig Prandtl Ring d. Wiss. Ges. f. Luft-u.
^ Jahrbuch (in German). 1973. p. 467. Retrieved 2 May 2019. ... gemeinsam mit den Trägern des Ludwig-Prandtl- Ringes beschlossen hat, den Luduig-Prandtl- Ring für das Jahr 1971 an Prof. Robert Legendre , Hohen Wissenschaftlichen Rat des Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales ...
^ Blachut, J.; Eschenauer, H.A. (2014). Emerging Methods for Multidisciplinary Optimization. CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences. Springer Vienna. p. 2. ISBN 978-3-7091-2756-8. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
^ Marquis Who's Who, Inc (1982). Who's who in the World. Marquis Who's Who, Inc. p. 891. ISBN 978-0-8379-1106-9. Retrieved 2 May 2019. QUICK, AUGUST WILHELM, educator; b. ... Technol U. Aachen (W. Ger.) ... Recipient Ludwig-Prandtl Ring, 1975; decorated officer Legion d'Honneur, Order Palmes Académiques (France); great cross of merits with star {{cite book}}: |first= has generic name (help)
^ Strute, K.; Doelken, T. (1983). Who's Who in Germany 1982–1983. International Red Series. Who's Who the International red series Verlag. p. 1696. ISBN 978-3-921220-46-7. Retrieved 2 May 2019. TRUCKENBRODT Erich Andreas, (Prof. Or. Ing. Dr. Ing. E.h.), aeronautical ... Ludwig-Prandtl-Award (1977); honorary doctor. Techn. Univ. Aachen (1981) ...
^ Storck, R. (2003). Flying Wings: die historische Entwicklung der Schwanzlosen- und Nurflögelflugzeuge der Welt (in German). Bernard & Graefe. p. 201. ISBN 978-3-7637-6242-2. Retrieved 11 February 2018. Philippe Poisson-Quinton, Paris Jahrgang 1919, Studium an der Sorbonne in Paris, Schule des Traveaux Publics und höhere Schule für Luftfahrrtechnik, Paris, langjähriger Mitarbeiter des Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales (ONERA), zuletzt Direktor für internationale Kooperationen und Senior Advisor, ... 1997 erhielt er für seine Verdienste um die europäische Luftfahrt von der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt den Ludwig Prandtl-Ring verliehen.
^ Hager, W. (2014). Hydraulicians in Europe 1800–2000. IAHR Monographs. CRC Press. p. 1176. ISBN 978-1-4665-5498-6. Retrieved 11 February 2018. After World War II Rotta came into contact with Albert Betz (1885–1968) of Göttingen University who was astonished to note that Rotta had no university degree. The latter thus worked ... Two noteworthy papers published in the early 1950s relate to the turbulent velocity distribution close to walls, thereby extending the approach of Prandtl and von Karman. The works over the ... He was awarded in 2000 the Ludwig-Prandtl Ring for his achievements in fluid mechanics.
^ "DGLR: Aktuelle Preisträger". Dglr.de. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
^ "DGLR: Auszeichnung – Ludwig-Prandtl-Ring". Dglr.de. Retrieved 26 July 2015.