Honours and Awards
- 1925: Nobel Prize in Physics The award was shared with Gustav Ludwig Hertz, and it was for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of electrons on atoms
- 1951: Max Planck Medal of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
- 1953: Honorary citizen of Göttingen
- 1955: Rumford Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences - For his work on photosynthesis
- 1964: Elected as a Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London, for his contribution to the understanding of exchanges of energy in electron collisions, to the interpretation of molecular spectra, and to problems of photosynthesis
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