Tom W. Bonner Prize for Nuclear Physics
The Tom W. Bonner Prize for Nuclear Physics is a prize awarded annually by the American Physical Society for nuclear physics. It is endowed with 10,000 dollars (as of 2012) and has been awarded since 1964. It is named after the physicist Tom Wilkerson Bonner (1910–1961). It is generally awarded for experimental work, but occasionally also to theorists.
Award winners
- 1965 Henry Barschall
- 1966 Robert Jemison Van de Graaff
- 1967 Charles Lauritsen
- 1968 Raymond Herb
- 1969 Gregory Breit
- 1970 William Alfred Fowler
- 1971 Maurice Goldhaber
- 1972 John D. Anderson , Donald Robson
- 1973 Herman Feshbach
- 1974 Denys Wilkinson
- 1975 Chien-Shiung Wu
- 1976 John P. Schiffer
- 1977 Stuart Thomas Butler , George Raymond Satchler
- 1978 Sergei Polikanov , VM Strutinsky
- 1979 Roy Middleton , Willy Haeberli
- 1980 Frank S. Stephens , Richard M. Diamond
- 1981 Bernard L. Cohen
- 1982 Gerald Brown
- 1983 Charles D. Goodman
- 1984 Harald A. Enge
- 1985 Eric G. Adelberger
- 1986 Lowell M. Bollinger
- 1987 Bernard Frois , Ingo Sick
- 1988 Raymond Davis Junior
- 1989 Ernest M. Henley
- 1990 Vernon Hughes
- 1991 Peter J. Twin
- 1992 Henry G. Blosser , Robert E. Pollock
- 1993 Akito Arima , Francesco Iachello
- 1994 Ernest K. Warburton
- 1995 Felix Boehm
- 1996 John Dirk Walecka
- 1997 RG Hamish Robertson
- 1998 Joel M. Moss
- 1999 Vijay Pandharipande
- 2000 Raymond G. Arnold
- 2001 Richard Geller , Claude Lyneis
- 2002 J. David Bowman
- 2003 Arthur McDonald
- 2004 George Bertsch
- 2005 Roy Holt
- 2006 Ian Towner , John Hardy
- 2007 Stuart J. Freedman
- 2008 Arthur Poskanzer
- 2009 Robert D. McKeown
- 2010 Steven C. Pieper , Robert B. Wiringa
- 2011 Richard F. Casten
- 2012 Witold Nazarewicz
- 2013 Michael K. Moe
- 2014 William A. Zajc
- 2015 Howard Wieman , Miklos Gyulassy
- 2016 I-Yang Lee
- 2017 Charles F. Perdrisat
- 2018 Bradley M. Sherrill
- 2019 Barbara V. Jacak
- 2020 Richard Milner