Formation | 1950 |
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Type | Scientific |
Purpose | Research |
Location | |
Website | http://www.oepg.at/ |
The Austrian Physical Society (German: Österreichische Physikalische Gesellschaft) is the national physical society of Austria.
Until 1938 Austrian physicists were part of the German Physical Society. On 13 December 1950 it was decided to found a separate society for Austria and Fritz Kohlrausch was elected as first president in 1951.
Every year it awards a prize to a promising young physicist. Alternating every year, this is the Ludwig Boltzmann Prize for theoretical physics and the Fritz Kohlrausch Prize for experimental physics.