Rumford Prize
The Rumford Prize is a science award for physics . It is awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences to scientists working in the United States for discoveries in the fields of thermodynamics and optics .
Although the Academy received a $ 5,000 donation from Count Rumford to establish the award as early as 1796 , the award was not first awarded until 1839. Today it is one of eight prizes awarded by the academy. According to the founder, the prize should be awarded every two years, but was in fact always awarded to one or more scientists at irregular intervals of one to several years. The last award ceremony took place in 2015. The award consists of a gold-plated silver medal.
List of award winners
- 1839: Robert Hare
- 1862: John Ericsson
- 1865: Daniel Treadwell
- 1866: Alvan Clark
- 1869: George Henry Corliss
- 1871: Joseph Harrison Jr
- 1873: Lewis Morris Rutherfurd
- 1875: John William Draper
- 1880: Josiah Willard Gibbs
- 1883: Henry Augustus Rowland
- 1886: Samuel Pierpont Langley
- 1888: Albert A. Michelson
- 1891: Edward Charles Pickering
- 1895: Thomas Alva Edison
- 1898: James Edward Keeler
- 1899: Charles Francis Brush
- 1900: Carl Barus
- 1901: Elihu Thomson
- 1902: George Ellery Hale
- 1904: Ernest Fox Nichols
- 1907: Edward Goodrich Acheson
- 1909: Robert Williams Wood
- 1910: Charles Gordon Curtis
- 1911: James Mason Crafts
- 1912: Frederic Eugene Ives
- 1913: Joel Stebbins
- 1914: William David Coolidge
- 1915: Charles Greeley Abbot
- 1917: Percy Williams Bridgman
- 1918: Theodore Lyman
- 1920: Irving Langmuir
- 1925: Henry Norris Russell
- 1926: Arthur Holly Compton
- 1928: Edward Leamington Nichols
- 1930: John Stanley Plaskett
- 1931: Karl Taylor Compton
- 1933: Harlow Shapley
- 1937: William Coblentz
- 1939: George Russell Harrison
- 1941: Vladimir Zworykin
- 1943: Charles E. Mees
- 1945: Edwin Herbert Land
- 1947: Edmund Newton Harvey
- 1949: Ira S. Bowen
- 1951: Herbert E. Ives
- 1953: Enrico Fermi , Willis E. Lamb and Lars Onsager
- 1955: James Franck
- 1957: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- 1959: George Wald
- 1961: Charles H. Townes
- 1963: Hans Bethe
- 1965: Samuel Cornette Collins and William David McElroy
- 1967: Robert Henry Dicke and Cornelis Bernardus van Niel
- 1968: Maarten Schmidt
- 1971: Awarded to three scientific research groups
- 1973: E. Bright Wilson
- 1976: Bruno Rossi
- 1980: Gregorio Weber , Chen Ning Yang and Robert L. Mills
- 1985: Hans Georg Dehmelt , Martin Deutsch , Vernon Willard Hughes and Norman Ramsey
- 1986: Robert B. Leighton , Frank James Low and Gerry Neugebauer
- 1992: James R. Norris , Joseph J. Katz and George Feher
- 1996: John C. Mather
- 2008: Sidney Drell , Sam Nunn , William Perry and George P. Shultz
- 2015: Federico Capasso , Alfred Cho
- 2019: Ernst Bamberg , Ed Boyden , Karl Deisseroth , Peter Hegemann , Gero Miesenböck and Georg Nagel
Web links
- Awards and archive of the award winners at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org)
- ↑ Annual Awards Ceremony ; accessed on February 11, 2019.