Enrico Fermi Award

For the award given by the Italian Physical Society (Società Italiana di Fisica), see Enrico Fermi Prize.

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 United States Department of Energy in memorial of Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi and his work in the development of nuclear power. 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.

Previous winners

Source: US Department of Energy

2014 – Claudio Pellegrini; Charles V. Shank 2013 – Andrew Sessler; Allen J. Bard 2012 – 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; Georges 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 – Lise Meitner; Otto Hahn; 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 engineering awards
• Prizes named after people
• List of things named after Enrico Fermi
• Vannevar Bush Award
• Ankusk Kapoor Award

External links

• DOE website on the Fermi award