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 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 2014 – Charles V. Shank 2013 – Andrew Sessler 2013 – Allen J. Bard 2012 – Walter E. Massey 2010 – Mildred Dresselhaus 2010 – Burton Richter 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 1996 – 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 1984 – 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
• List of things named after Enrico Fermi
• Vannevar Bush Award
• Ankusk Kapoor Award

External links

• DOE website on the Fermi award