Ludwig Prandtl Ring

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
 * 1958 Albert Betz
 * 1959 Claudius Dornier
 * 1960 Frederick Handley Page
 * 1961 Henrich Focke
 * 1962
 * 1963
 * 1964
 * 1965 Jakob Ackeret
 * 1966 Adolf Busemann
 * 1967 Giuseppe Gabrielli
 * 1968 Hans W. Liepmann
 * 1969 Hermann Schlichting
 * 1970 Dietrich Küchemann
 * 1971 Robert Legendre
 * 1972 Ludwig Bölkow
 * 1973
 * 1974 William R. Sears
 * 1975 August W. Quick
 * 1976 Alec David Young
 * 1977
 * 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
 * 1986 Roger Béteille
 * 1987 Holt Ashley
 * 1988
 * 1989
 * 1990 Hubert Ludwieg
 * 1991
 * 1992 Hans von Ohain
 * 1993
 * 1994 Josef Singer
 * 1995
 * 1996 Harvard Lomax
 * 1997
 * 1998 Jürgen Zierep
 * 1999 Hans G. Hornung
 * 2000 Julius C. Rotta
 * 2001 Not awarded
 * 2002 Boris Laschka
 * 2003
 * 2004 Egon Krause
 * 2005 Wilhelm Schneider
 * 2006
 * 2007 Peter Hamel
 * 2008 Yuri Kachanov
 * 2009 Siegfried Wagner
 * 2010 Michael Gaster
 * 2011 Not awarded
 * 2012 John W. Hutchinson
 * 2013
 * 2014 Dietrich Hummel
 * 2015
 * 2016 Egbert Torenbeek
 * 2017 Helmut Sobieczky
 * 2018 Hermann Fasel
 * 2019 Ann Dowling