Enrico Fermi award
The Enrico Fermi Award is a scientific award conferred by the President of the United States. It is awarded to honor scientists of international stature for their lifetime achievement in the development, use, or production of energy. It was established in 1956 by the United States Department of Energy in memorial of Italian physicist Enrico Fermi and his work in the development of nuclear power.[1] The recipient of the award receives $100,000, a certificate signed by the President and the Secretary of Energy, and a gold medal featuring the likeness of Enrico Fermi.[2]
Winners
- 1956 – John von Neumann
- 1957 – Ernest O. Lawrence
- 1958 – Eugene P. Wigner
- 1959 – Glenn T. Seaborg
- 1961 – Hans A. Bethe
- 1962 – Edward Teller
- 1963 – J. Robert Oppenheimer
- 1964 – Hyman G. Rickover
- 1966 – Lise Meitner; Otto Hahn; Fritz Strassmann
- 1968 – John A. Wheeler
- 1969 – Walter Zinn
- 1970 – Norris E. Bradbury
- 1971 – Shields Warren; Stafford L. Warren
- 1972 – Manson Benedict
- 1976 – William L. Russell
- 1978 – Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky; Harold M. Agnew
- 1980 – Rudolf E. Peierls; Alvin M. Weinberg
- 1981 – W. Bennett Lewis
- 1982 – Herbert L. Anderson; Seth Neddermeyer
- 1983 – Alexander Hollaender; John H. Lawrence
- 1984 – Robert R. Wilson; Georges Vendryes
- 1985 – Norman Rasmussen; Marshall Rosenbluth
- 1986 – Ernest Courant; M. Stanley Livingston
- 1987 – Luis Alvarez; Gerald F. Tape
- 1988 – Richard B. Setlow; Victor F. Weisskopf
- 1990 – George A. Cowan; Robley D. Evans
- 1992 – Harold Brown; John S. Foster, Jr.; Leon M. Lederman
- 1993 – Liane B. Russell; Freeman Dyson
- 1995 – Ugo Fano; Martin D. Kamen
- 1996 – Mortimer M. Elkind; H. Rodney Withers; Richard L. Garwin
- 1998 – Maurice Goldhaber; Michael E. Phelps
- 2000 – Sheldon Datz; Sidney D. Drell; Herbert F. York
- 2003 – John N. Bahcall; Raymond Davis, Jr.; Seymour Sack
- 2005 – Arthur H. Rosenfeld
- 2009 – John B. Goodenough; Siegfried Hecker
- 2012 – Mildred Dresselhaus; Burton Richter[3]
- 2013 – Andrew Sessler; Allen J. Bard
- 2014 – Claudio Pellegrini; Charles V. Shank
- 2023 – Darleane C. Hoffman; Gabor A. Somorjai
See also
- List of engineering awards
- Prizes named after people
- List of things named after Enrico Fermi
- Vannevar Bush Award
References
- ^ Energy, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC, for the U. S. Department of. "Enrico Fermi Award". www.lanl.gov. Retrieved 2021-03-02.
{cite web}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "The Enrico Fermi Award". US Department of Energy. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
- ^ "President Obama Names Scientists Mildred Dresselhaus and Burton Richter as the Enrico Fermi Award Winners". Energy.gov. Retrieved 2019-09-15.
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