The medal is awarded to deserving individuals for outstanding scientific findings, works, or publications related to Albert Einstein.
Albert Einstein Medal Laureates
2026 Peter Schneider BRD
2025 Robert Wald USA
2024 George Efstathiou UK
2023 Luc Blanchet F
2020 EHT Event Horizon Telescope
(Founding director of the consortium:
Sheperd Doeleman (USA)
Chairman of the scientific advisory board:
Heino Falcke (Netherland)
2019 Clifford Martin Will USA
2018 Juan Martín Maldacena USA
2017 LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the VIRGO Collaboration
(Spokesperson: Gabriela Gonzáles)
2016 Alexei Yu Smirnov RU
2015 Stanley Deser und Charles W. Misner USA
2014 Thomas Walter Bannerman Kibble UK
2013 Roy Patrick Kerr NZ
2012 Alain Aspect F
2011 Saul Perlmutter und Adam Guy Riess USA
2010 Hermann Nicolai D
2009 Kip Stephen Thorne USA
2008 Beno Eckmann CH
2007 Reinhard Genzel D
2006 Gabriele Veneziano I
2005 Murray Gell-Mann USA
2004 Michel Mayor CH
2003 George Fitzgerald Smoot USA
2001 Johannes Geiss und Hubert Reeves D/CH, Can
2000 Gustav Andreas Tammann CH
1999 Friedrich Ernst Peter Hirzebruch D
1998 Claude Nicollier CH
1996 Thibault Damour F
1995 Chen Ning Yang USA/China
1994 Irwin Shapiro USA
1993 Max Flückiger und Adolf Meichle CH
1992 Peter Bergmann USA
1991 Joseph Hooton Taylor USA
1990 Roger Penrose GB
1989 Markus Fierz CH
1988 John Archibald Wheeler USA
1987 Jeanne Hersch CH
1986 Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer D
1985 Edward Witten USA
1984 Victor Weisskopf USA
1983 Sir Hermann Bondi GB
1982 Friedrich Traugott Wahlen CH
1979 Stephen Hawking GB
Scientific Board:
Prof. Dr. Philippe Jetzer (President), Zürich
Prof. Dr. Matthias Blau, Bern
Prof. Dr. Camille Bonvin, Genève
Prof. Dr. Jean-Pilippe Brantut, EPFL
Prof. Dr. Mikko Laine, Bern
Prof. Dr. Hans-Rudolf Ott, Zürich
Prof. Dr. Susanne Reffert, Bern
