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 $50,000, a certificate signed by the President and the Secretary of Energy, and a gold medal featuring the likeness of Enrico Fermi.

Previous winners

Source: US Department of Energy

2014 – Claudio Pellegrini; Charles V. Shank
2013 – Andrew Sessler; Allen J. Bard
2012 – Walter E. Massey
2010 – Mildred Dresselhaus; Burton Richter
2009 – John B. Goodenough; Siegfried Hecker
2005 – Arthur H. Rosenfeld
2003 – John N. Bahcall; Raymond Davis, Jr.; Seymour Sack
2000 – Sheldon Datz; Sidney D. Drell; Herbert F. York
1998 – Maurice Goldhaber; Michael E. Phelps
1996 – Mortimer M. Elkind; H. Rodney Withers; Richard L. Garwin
1995 – Ugo Fano; Martin D. Kamen
1993 – Liane B. Russell; Freeman J. Dyson
1992 – Harold Brown; John S. Foster, Jr.; Leon M. Lederman

1990 – George A. Cowan; Robley D. Evans
1988 – Richard B. Setlow; Victor F. Weisskopf
1987 – Luis Alvarez; Gerald F. Tape
1986 – Ernest Courant; M. Stanley Livingston

1985 – Norman Rasmussen; Marshall Rosenbluth
1984 – Robert R. Wilson; George Vendryes
1983 – Alexander Hollaender; John H. Lawrence
1982 – Herbert L. Anderson; Seth Neddermeyer
1981 – W. Bennett Lewis
1980 – Rudolf E. Peierls; Alvin M. Weinberg
1978 – Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky; Harold M. Agnew
1976 – William L. Russell
1972 – Manson Benedict
1971 – Shields Warren; Stafford L. Warren
1970 – Norris E. Bradbury
1969 – Walter Zinn
1968 – John A. Wheeler
1966 – Otto Hahn; Lise Meitner; 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

External links

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