On 28.06.2019, outstanding physicists were honoured at an academic ceremony on the Riedberg campus with a speech by State Secretary Ayse Asar of the Hessian Ministry of Science and the Arts. The organizers were the Physics Department of the Goethe University, the Walter Greiner Gesellschaft zur Förderung der physikalischen Grundlagenforschung e.V. (Walter Greiner Society for the Promotion of Physical Basic Research), and the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS).