Enrico Fermi Award
This award, named after physicist Enrico Fermi, has been given by the United States Atomic Energy Commission and its successor, the US Department of Energy, to recognize career contributions to science, technology, and medicine related to nuclear energy; and, more recently, in the science and technology of energy more generally.
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Recipients
- 1956: John von Neumann
- 1957: Ernest Lawrence
- 1958: Eugene Wigner
- 1959: Glenn Seaborg
- 1961: Hans Bethe
- 1962: Edward Teller
- 1963: J. Robert Oppenheimer
- 1964: Adm. Hyman Rickover
- 1966: Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner, and Fritz Strassman
- 1968: John Wheeler
- 1969: Walter Zinn
- 1970: Norris Bradbury
- 1971: Shields Warren and Stafford Warren
- 1972: Manson Benedict
- 1976: William L. Russell
- 1978: Wolfgang Panofsky and Harold Agnew
- 1980: Rudolf Peierls and Alvin Weinberg
- 1981: W. Bennett Lewis
- 1982: Herbert Anderson and Seth Neddermeyer
- 1983: Alexander Hollaender and John H. Lawrence
- 1984: Robert R. Wilson and George Vendryes
- 1985: Norman Rasmussen and Marshall Rosenbluth
- 1986: Ernest Courant and M. Stanley Livingston
- 1987: Luis Alvarez and Gerald Tape
- 1988: Richard Setlow and Victor Weisskopf
- 1990: George Cowan and Robley Evans
- 1992: Harold Brown, John Foster, and Leon Lederman
- 1993: Freeman Dyson and Liane Russell
- 1995: Ugo Fano and Martin Kamen
- 1996: Mortimer Elkind, Richard Garwin, and H. Rodney Withers
- 1998: Maurice Goldhaber and Michael E. Phelps
- 2000: Sheldon Datz, Sidney Drell, and Herbert York
- 2003: John Bahcall, Raymond Davis Jr., and Seymour Sack
- 2005: Arthur Rosenfeld
- 2009: John Goodenough and Siegfried Hecker
- 2010: Mildred Dresselhaus and Burton Richter
