Honors and Awards

The DGM has awarded this honor only twice so far, for scientific achievement combined with outstanding voluntary service to the DGM.

Honorary members have given the DGM outstanding support, material or otherwise.

The DGM's highest award recognizes achievements that have substantially advanced the field and can also honor a life's work.

Since 2023, the DGM has awarded this medal to scientists from abroad who have close, long-standing ties with DGM members.

The prize honors mid-career scientists for a breakthrough in the field, documented by publications.

The prize recognizes DGM members who have worked with industry to bring research results into technical application.

Until 2021, the medal honored DGM members who, as heads of a research group, made their mark with a far-reaching research or development concept.

The prize recognizes independent research by young DGM members, published in the two years before the award.

The prize recognizes work by young scientists, preferably work closely linked to practice.

The prize is open to doctoral candidates and to those who completed their doctorate no more than two years ago.

The prize recognizes a paper in the Zeitschrift für Metallkunde, now the International Journal of Materials Research (IJMR).

The prize recognizes achievements in preparative materialography and is presented at the Metallography Conference.

The DGM endows this prize for achievements in metallography together with two Austrian partners.

The prize recognizes people who have distinguished themselves in materials testing, mainly younger members of the field.