Leo Szilard Lectureship Award
The Leo Szilard Lectureship Award is an annual science award given by the American Physical Society . It is named after the Hungarian-German-American physicist and molecular biologist Leó Szilárd . It was awarded for the first time in 1974, at that time still undoped and under the name Leo Szilard Award . With financial support from the Packard and MacArthur Foundations , among others, prize money has been awarded since 1998: initially $ 1,000 , as of 2017, is $ 3,000. In addition, the award winner receives financial support to hold lectures.
The award is given to people who have distinguished themselves in the application of scientific physical knowledge for the benefit of the general public, particularly in the areas of environmental protection , arms control and science policy . The award is shaped like a dolphin , referring to a short story by Szilárd called The Voice of the Dolphins .
List of award winners
- 1974: David Inglis
- 1975: Bernard T. Feld
- 1976: Richard Garwin
- 1977: not awarded
- 1978: Matthew Meselson
- 1979: Frank Sherwood Rowland
- 1980: Sidney Drell
- 1981: Henry Way Kendall , Hans Bethe
- 1982: Wolfgang Panofsky
- 1983: Andrei Sakharov
- 1984: Kosta Tsipis
- 1985: James B. Pollack , Owen Toon , Thomas Ackerman , Richard P. Turco , Carl Sagan , John Birks , Paul Crutzen
- 1986: Arthur H. Rosenfeld
- 1987: Thomas B. Cochran
- 1988: Robert H. Williams
- 1989: Anthony Nero
- 1990: Theodore A. Postol
- 1991: John H. Gibbons
- 1992: Kurt Gottfried
- 1993: Ray Kidder , Roy Woodruff
- 1994: Herbert York
- 1995: Yevgeny Welichow , Roald Sagdejew
- 1996: David Hafemeister
- 1997: Thomas Lee Neff
- 1998: David B. Goldstein , Howard Geller
- 1999: John Alexander Simpson
- 2000: Jeremiah David Sullivan
- 2001: John Harte
- 2002: Henry C. Kelly
- 2003: Robert H. Socolow
- 2004: Marc Ross
- 2005: David K. Barton , Roger Falcone , Daniel Kleppner , Frederick K. Lamb , Ming K. Lau , Harvey L. Lynch , David Moncton , David Montague , David E. Mosher , William Priedhorsky , Maury Tigner , David R. Vaughan
- 2006: Paul G. Richards
- 2007: James E. Hansen
- 2008: Anatoli Dijakow , Pavel Podvig
- 2009: Raymond Jeanloz
- 2010: Frank von Hippel
- 2011: John F. Ahearne
- 2012: Siegfried S. Hecker
- 2013: Geoffrey West
- 2014: MV Ramana , Ramamurti Rajaraman
- 2015: Ashok Gadgil
- 2016: Joel Primack
- 2017: James Timbie
- 2018: Edwin Stuart Lyman
- 2019: Zia Mian
- 2020: France A. Córdova
Web links
- Website of the prize (English)
- Leo Szilard Lectureship Award is Funded. Press release from 1998 on the APS website