The Wigner Medal was an award designed "to recognize outstanding contributions to the understanding of physics through Group Theory".
[2] The first award was given in 1978 to Eugene Wigner at the Integrative Conference on Group Theory and Mathematical Physics.
[4] In 2020–21, the ICGTMP Standing Committee created a new prize to replace the Wigner Medal, called the Weyl–Wigner Award.
The Hermann Weyl Prize was established to award young scientists "who have performed original work of significant scientific quality in the area of understanding physics through symmetries".
[5] Heinz-Dietrich Doebner convinced the Standing Committee that it would be necessary for the future development of the field to acknowledge young researchers who presented outstanding work and to motivate them, to continue and to diversify their activity.