The Enrico Fermi Award is a scientific award conferred by the President of the United States. It is awarded to honor scientists of international stature for their lifetime achievement in the development, use or production of energy. It was established in 1956 by the Atomic Energy Commission in memorial of Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi and his work in the development of nuclear power.
The award has been administered through the Department of Energy since its establishment in 1977. The recipient of the award receives $100,000, a certificate signed by the President and the Secretary of Energy and a gold medal featuring the likeness of Enrico Fermi.
Winners
1956 – John von Neumann 1957 – Ernest O. Lawrence 1958 – Eugene P. Wigner 1959 – Glenn T. Seaborg 1961 – Hans A. Bethe 1962 – Edward Teller 1963 – J. Robert Oppenheimer 1964 – Hyman G. Rickover 1966 – Lise Meitner; Otto Hahn; Fritz Strassmann 1968 – John A. Wheeler 1969 – Walter Zinn 1970 – Norris E. Bradbury 1971 – Shields Warren; Stafford L. Warren 1972 – Manson Benedict 1976 – William L. Russell 1978 – Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky; Harold M. Agnew 1980 – Rudolf E. Peierls; Alvin M. Weinberg 1981 – W. Bennett Lewis 1982 – Herbert L. Anderson; Seth Neddermeyer 1983 – Alexander Hollaender; John H. Lawrence 1984 – Robert R. Wilson; Georges Vendryes 1985 – Norman Rasmussen; Marshall Rosenbluth 1986 – Ernest Courant; M. Stanley Livingston 1987 – Luis Alvarez; Gerald F. Tape 1988 – Richard B. Setlow; Victor F. Weisskopf 1990 – George A. Cowan; Robley D. Evans 1992 – Harold Brown; John S. Foster, Jr.; Leon M. Lederman 1993 – Liane B. Russell; Freeman Dyson 1995 – Ugo Fano; Martin D. Kamen 1996 – Mortimer M. Elkind; H. Rodney Withers; Richard L. Garwin 1998 – Maurice Goldhaber; Michael E. Phelps 2000 – Sheldon Datz; Sidney D. Drell; Herbert F. York 2003 – John N. Bahcall; Raymond Davis, Jr.; Seymour Sack 2005 – Arthur H. Rosenfeld 2009 – John B. Goodenough; Siegfried Hecker 2012 – Mildred Dresselhaus; Burton Richter 2013 – Andrew Sessler; Allen J. Bard 2014 – Claudio Pellegrini; Charles V. Shank 2023 – Darleane C. Hoffman; Gabor A. Somorjai 2024 – Héctor D. Abruña; Paul Alivisatos; John H. Nuckolls
See also List of engineering awards Prizes named after people List of things named after Enrico Fermi Vannevar Bush Award
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