Enrico Fermi Award

The Enrico Fermi Award is an 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.

Previous winners

• 2009 – John B. Goodenough
• 2009 – Siegfried Hecker
• 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, Jr.
• 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 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 L. 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 Zinn
• 1968 – John A. Wheeler
• 1966 – Otto Hahn
• 1966 – Lise Meitner
• 1966 – Fritz Strassmann
• 1964 – Hyman G. Rickover
• 1963 – J. Robert Oppenheimer
• 1962 – Edward Teller
• 1961 – Hans A. Bethe
• 1959 – Glenn T. Seaborg
• 1958 – Eugene P. Wigner
• 1957 – Ernest O. Lawrence
• 1956 – John von Neumann

See also

• List of awards
• Prizes named after people
• Vannevar Bush Award
• Ankusk Kapoor Award

External links

• DOE website on the Fermi award