Edward Teller Award
The Edward Teller Award of the American Nuclear Society is presented every two years for outstanding achievements in the use of lasers and particle beams to generate high temperatures and densities, particularly for fusion research. It is named after Edward Teller . The award is endowed with 2000 US dollars. It was previously awarded at the Laser Interaction and Related Plasma Phenomena (LIRPP) conference .
Award winners
- 1991 Nikolai G. Basov , Heinrich Hora , John H. Nuckolls , Chiyoe Yamanaka
- 1993 Robert Dautray , John D. Lindl , Sadao Nakai
- 1995 E. Michael Campbell , Gennady A. Kirillov , Robert L. McCrory , George H. Miley
- 1997 Michael H. Key , Jürgen Meyer-ter-Vehn , Guillermo Velarde , George O. Zimmerman
- 1999 Larry R. Foreman Steven W. Haan , Dov Shvarts
- 2001 Mordecai Rosen , Stefano Atzeni
- 2003 Hideaki Takabe , Laurance J. Suter
- 2005 Joseph D. Kilkenny , Max Tabak
- 2007 Kunioki Mima , Brian R. Thomas
- 2009 Riccardo Betti , Edward I. Moses
- 2011 Christine Garban-Labaune , Bruce A. Remington
- 2013 James Hammer , Richard Petrasso
- 2015 Hiroshi Azechi , Jie Zhang
- 2017 R. Paul Drake , Vladimir Tikhonchuk
- 2019 Xian-Tu He , Patrick Mora