Enrico Fermi Award
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The Enrico Fermi Award is a U.S. government "Presidential" award honoring scientists of international stature for their lifetime achievement in the development, use, or production of energy. It is administered by the U.S. government's Department of Energy. The recipient receives $375,000, a certificate signed by the President and the Secretary of Energy, and a gold medal featuring the likeness of Enrico Fermi.
[edit] Previous winners
- 2005 – Arthur H. Rosenfeld
- 2003 – John N. Bahcall
- 2003 – Raymond Davis, Jr.
- 2003 – Seymour Sack
- 2000 – Sheldon Datz
- 2000 – Sidney D. Drell
- 2000 – Herbert F. York
- 1998 – Maurice Goldhaber
- 1998 – Michael E. Phelps
- 1996 – Mortimer M. Elkind and H. Rodney Withers
- 1996 – Richard L. Garwin
- 1995 – Ugo Fano
- 1995 – Martin D. Kamen
- 1993 – Liane B. Russell
- 1993 – Freeman J. Dyson
- 1992 – Harold Brown
- 1992 – John S. Foster
- 1992 – Leon M. Lederman
- 1990 – George A. Cowan
- 1990 – Robley D. Evans
- 1988 – Richard B. Setlow
- 1988 – Victor F. Weisskopf
- 1987 – Luis Alvarez
- 1987 – Gerald F. Tape
- 1986 – Ernest D. Courant
- 1986 – M. Stanley Livingston
- 1985 – Norman Rasmussen
- 1985 – Marshall Rosenbluth
- 1984 – Robert R. Wilson
- 1985 – George Vendryes
- 1983 – Alexander Hollaender
- 1983 – John H. Lawrence
- 1982 – Herbert Anderson
- 1982 – Seth Neddermeyer
- 1981 – W. Bennett Lewis
- 1980 – Rudolf E. Peierls
- 1980 – Alvin M. Weinberg
- 1978 – Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky
- 1978 – Harold M. Agnew
- 1976 – William L. Russell
- 1972 – Manson Benedict
- 1971 – Shields Warren
- 1971 – Stafford L. Warren
- 1970 – Norris E. Bradbury
- 1969 – Walter H. Zinn
- 1968 – John A. Wheeler
- 1966 – Otto Hahn
- 1966 – Lise Meitner
- 1966 – Fritz Strassmann
- 1964 – H.G. Rickover
- 1963 – J.R. Oppenheimer
- 1962 – Edward Teller
- 1961 – Hans A. Bethe
- 1959 – Glenn T. Seaborg
- 1958 – Eugene P. Wigner
- 1957 – Ernest O. Lawrence
- 1956 – John von Neumann
[edit] See also
- List of awards
- Prizes named after people
- Vannevar Bush Award
- Ankusk Kapoor Award
