Albert Einstein Award
The Albert Einstein Award is a physics prize awarded by the Lewis and Rosa Strauss Memorial Fund through the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), which was donated on Albert Einstein's 70th birthday. Einstein was a member of the IAS and Lewis Strauss was on its Board of Trustees. Einstein was also represented on the committee for the first prize. It initially came with a $ 15,000 prize pool, later reduced to $ 5,000. It has been awarded since 1951.
It should not be confused with the Albert Einstein Medal , but is also associated with a medal, which is why it is sometimes referred to as the Einstein Medal. There are also several other prizes named after Einstein such as the Albert Einstein Commemorative Award in Science from Yeshiva University, the Einstein Award from SolarWorld AG, the Albert Einstein Peace Prize, an Israeli Einstein Award and the Albert Einstein World Award of Science from the World Cultural Council .
Award winners
The list is incomplete
- 1951: Kurt Gödel , Julian Seymour Schwinger
- 1954: Richard Feynman
- 1956: John von Neumann
- 1958: Edward Teller
- 1959: Willard Libby
- 1961: Luis Walter Alvarez
- 1965: John Archibald Wheeler
- 1969: Marshall Rosenbluth
- 1970: Juval Ne'eman
- 1972: Eugene Paul Wigner
- 1978: Stephen Hawking
- 1979: Tullio Regge
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Physics Today 1978, bibcode : 1978PhT .... 31Q..67.
- ↑ Physics Today 1979, bibcode : 1979PhT .... 32e..82.