Enrico Fermi Prize
Established in memory of Enrico Fermi , the Enrico Fermi Award (Enrico Fermi Award) has been awarded annually since 1956 by the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) of the USA to a person who has made a special contribution to the development, use or control of nuclear energy . The award is endowed with 100,000 US dollars (as of 2020).
In November 1954, shortly before his death, Fermi himself received a lifetime achievement award from the US President and the Atomic Energy Commission, the continuation of which is the Fermi Prize.
The Società Italiana di Fisica (Italian Society for Physics) has also been awarding the Premio Enrico Fermi since 2001 , which (as of 2011) is endowed with 30,000 euros.
Award winners
- 1956: John von Neumann
- 1957: Ernest Lawrence
- 1958: Eugene Wigner
- 1959: Glenn T. Seaborg
- 1961: Hans Bethe
- 1962: Edward Teller
- 1963: Robert Oppenheimer
- 1964: Hyman Rickover
- 1966: Otto Hahn , Lise Meitner and Fritz Straßmann
- 1968: John Archibald Wheeler
- 1969: Walter Henry Zinn
- 1970: Norris Bradbury
- 1971: Shields Warren and Stafford L. Warren
- 1972: Manson Benedict
- 1976: William L. Russell
- 1978: Harold M. Agnew
- 1979: Wolfgang Panofsky
- 1980: Rudolf Peierls and Alvin M. Weinberg
- 1981: W. Bennett Lewis
- 1982: Herbert L. Anderson and Seth Neddermeyer
- 1983: Alexander Hollaender and John H. Lawrence
- 1984: Robert R. Wilson and Georges Vendryes
- 1985: Norman Rasmussen and Marshall Rosenbluth
- 1986: Ernest Courant and M. Stanley Livingston
- 1987: Luis Walter Alvarez and Gerald F. Tape
- 1988: Richard B. Setlow and Victor Weisskopf
- 1990: George Cowan and Robley D. Evans
- 1992: Harold Brown , John S. Foster junior and Leon Max Lederman
- 1993: Liane B. Russell and Freeman Dyson
- 1995: Ugo Fano and Martin Kamen
- 1996: Mortimer M. Elkind , H. Rodney Withers and Richard Garwin
- 1998: Maurice Goldhaber and Michael E. Phelps
- 2000: Sheldon Datz , Sidney Drell and Herbert York
- 2003: John N. Bahcall , Raymond Davis Jr., and Seymour Sack
- 2005: Arthur H. Rosenfeld
- 2009: John B. Goodenough and Siegfried Hecker
- 2010: Mildred Dresselhaus and Burton Richter
- 2013: Allen J. Bard and Andrew Sessler
- 2014: Claudio Pellegrini and Charles V. Shank
Web links
- US DOE Office of Science (SC): The Enrico Fermi Award Homepage , award winner