The Michelson–Morley Award is a science award that originated from the Michelson Award that was established in 1963 by the Case Institute of Technology. It was renamed in 1968 by the newly formed Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) after the federation between the Case Institute of Technology and Western Reserve University. The award continued until 1992, and was re-established in 2002. The award in its various forms is named for physics professor Albert A. Michelson (Case School of Applied Sciences) and chemistry professor Edward W. Morley (Western Reserve University) who carried out the famous Michelson–Morley experiment of 1887.
Recipients Michelson Award 1963 – John Hasbrouck Van Vleck 1964 – Haldan Keffer Hartline 1965 – Luis W. Alvarez 1966 – Edwin H. Land 1967 – Martin Schwarzschild
Michelson–Morley Award 1968 – John Bardeen 1970 – Charles H. Townes 1976 – John D. Roberts 1977 – Gene M. Amdahl 1978 – Harry George Drickamer 1979 – Hans Liepmann 1980 – Frank Albert Cotton 1981 – Francis Crick 1982 – Michael Ellis Fisher 1983 – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar 1984 – Paul Lauterbur 1985 – Paul Fleury 1986 – Richard Zare 1987 – Robert H. Dicke and George A. Olah 1988 – John J. Hopfield 1989 – Herman F. Mark 1990 – Frederick Reines 1991 – John Cahn 1992 – Watt W. Webb 2002 – Frank Wilczek 2003 – Stephen Hawking
The 1987 award was jointly to a physicist and chemist to honour the centenary of the Michelson–Morley experiment.
References
Sources Michelson–Morley Award Lecture (Case Western Reserve University) The Michelson Lectures and Awards, p. 339 of Physics at a Research University, Case Western Reserve 1830-1990 (2005) by William Fickinger, Professor Emeritus (Appendix D: Programs and Lecture Series) Happenings, The Scientist (1 June 1987)