Albert Einstein Medal
The Albert Einstein Medal is awarded by the Swiss Albert Einstein Society, which also operates Einstein's former home as a museum in Kramgasse in Bern , for outstanding scientific research, works or work in connection with Albert Einstein .
There is also an Albert Einstein Medal from UNESCO .
Award winners
- 1979: Stephen Hawking
- 1982: Friedrich Traugott elections
- 1983: Hermann Bondi
- 1984: Victor Weisskopf
- 1985: Edward Witten
- 1986: Rudolf Mößbauer
- 1987: Jeanne Hersch
- 1988: John Archibald Wheeler
- 1989: Markus Fierz
- 1990: Roger Penrose
- 1991: Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.
- 1992: Peter Bergmann
- 1993: Max Flückiger , Adolf Meichle
- 1994: Irwin I. Shapiro
- 1995: Chen Ning Yang
- 1996: Thibault Damour
- 1998: Claude Nicollier
- 1999: Friedrich Hirzebruch
- 2000: Gustav Andreas Tammann
- 2001: Johannes Geiss , Hubert Reeves
- 2003: George F. Smoot
- 2004: Michel Mayor
- 2005: Murray Gell-Mann
- 2006: Gabriele Veneziano
- 2007: Reinhard Genzel
- 2008: Beno Eckmann
- 2009: Kip Thorne
- 2010: Hermann Nicolai
- 2011: Saul Perlmutter , Adam G. Riess
- 2012: Alain Aspect
- 2013: Roy Patrick Kerr
- 2014: TWB Kibble
- 2015: Stanley Deser , Charles Misner
- 2016: Alexei Yuryevich Smirnov
- 2017: the teams from LIGO and VIRGO
- 2018: Juan Martín Maldacena
- 2019: Clifford Martin Will
- 2020: Event Horizon Telescope