Enrico Fermi Award

Named in honor of atomic pioneer Enrico Fermi, this $100,000 award is given in recognition of outstanding scientific and technical achievement in the development, use, or production of energy. The award is a presidential award and is announced by the White House.

Year

Winner

1954	Enrico Fermi
1955	no award
1956	John von Neumann
1957	Ernest O. Lawrence
1958	Eugene P. Wigner
1959	Glenn T. Seaborg
1960	no award
1961	Hans A. Bethe
1962	Edward Teller
1963	J. Robert Oppenheimer
1964	Hyman G. Rickover
1965	no award
1966	Otto Hahn
	Lise Meitner
	Fritz Strassman
1967	no award
1968	John A. Wheeler
1969	Walter H. Zinn
1970	Norris E. Bradbury
1971	Shields Warren
	Stafford L. Warren
1972	Manson Benedict
1973	no award
1974	no award
1975	no award
1976	William L. Russell
1978	Harold M. Agnew
	Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky
1979	no award
1980	Alvin M. Weinberg
	Rudolf E. Peiris
1981	W. Bennett Lewis
1982	Herbert Anderson
	Seth Neddermeyer
1983	Alexander Hollaender
	John Lawrence
1984	Robert R. Wilson
	Georges Vendryès
1985	Norman C. Rasmussen
	Marshall N. Rosenbluth
1986	Ernest D. Courant
	M. Stanley Livingston
1987	Luis W. Alvarez
	Gerald F. Tape
1988	Richard B. Setlow
	Victor F. Weisskopf
1989	no award
1990	George A. Cowan
	Robley D. Evans
1991	no award
1992	Leon M. Lederman
	Harold Brown
	John S. Foster, Jr.
1993	Freeman J. Dyson
	Liane B. Russell
1994	no award
1995	Ugo Fano
	Martin Kamen
1996	Richard Garwin
	Mortimer Elkind
	H. Rodney Withers
1997	no award
1998	Maurice Goldhaber
	Michael Phelps
1999	no award
2000	Sidney Drell
	Sheldon Datz
	Herbert York
2001	no award
2002	no award
2003	John Bahcall
	Raymond Davis, Jr.
	Seymour Sack
2004	no award
2005	Arthur H. Rosenfeld

Source: United States Department of Energy.

Appears in these articles:

Hahn, Otto; Oppenheimer, J. Robert; Neumann, John von; Teller, Edward; Nuclear Energy; Meitner, Lise; Fermi, Enrico

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