Enrico Fermi Award

Information about Enrico Fermi Award

The Enrico Fermi Award is a U.S. government "Presidential" 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 $375,000, a certificate signed by the President and the Secretary of Energy, and a gold medal featuring the likeness of Enrico Fermi.

Previous winners

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 and 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
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 D. Courant
1986 – M. Stanley Livingston
1985 – Norman Rasmussen
1985 – Marshall Rosenbluth
1984 – Robert R. Wilson
1985 – George Vendryes
1983 – Alexander Hollaender
1983 – John H. Lawrence
1982 – Herbert 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 H. Zinn
1968 – John A. Wheeler
1966 – Otto Hahn
1966 – Lise Meitner
1966 – Fritz Strassmann
1964 – H.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

External link

DOE website on the Fermi award

energy (from the Greek ενεργός, energos, "active, working")^[1] is a scalar physical quantity that is a property of objects and systems of objects which is conserved by nature.
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United States
Department of Energy

Seal of the Department of Energy
Agency overview
Formed August 4, 1977

Employees 16,100 federal
100,000 contract (2004)
Annual Budget $23.
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Enrico Fermi

Enrico Fermi in the 1940s
Born September 29 1901
Rome, Italy
Died November 28 1954 (aged 53)
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Dr. Arthur H Rosenfeld (b. 1927) is a Commissioner of the California Energy Commission since 2000.

Rosenfeld earned a PhD (1954) in Physics from the University of Chicago where he was the last graduate student of Enrico Fermi.
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John Norris Bahcall (December 30 1934 – August 17 2005) was an American astrophysicist. He is best known for his contributions to the solar neutrino problem and the development of the Hubble Space Telescope, and for his leadership and development of the Institute for Advanced
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Raymond Davis, Jr.

Born 14 September 1914
Washington, D.C.
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Sheldon Datz (July 21, 1927 – August 15, 2001) was born in New York City, son of Clara and Jacob Datz. He went to Stuyvesant High School and received degrees in Chemistry from Columbia University and University of Tennessee.
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Sidney Drell (born September 13, 1926) is an American theoretical physicist and arms control expert.

He is a professor emeritus at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and a fellow at the Hoover Institution.
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Herbert Frank York (Born in Rochester, NY, November 24, 1921) is an accomplished American nuclear physicist who has held numerous scientific and administrative positions within the United States government and various educational institutes.

He earned his B.S. and M.
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Maurice Goldhaber
Born March 18 1911 (age 96)
Lemburg, Austria
Residence United States
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Michael E. Phelps (b. 1939 Cleveland, Ohio) is a professor and a American biophysicist. He perhaps best know for developing the Positron emission tomography (PET) scan in 1975. Phelps earned his B.S.
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Richard Lawrence Garwin (born April 19, 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio^[1]), is an American physicist. He received his bachelor's degree from Case Western Reserve University in 1947 and obtained his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1949 (where he worked in the lab of Enrico
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Ugo Fano (July 28, 1912, Turin, Italy – February 13, 2001, Chicago, Illinois) was a leader in theoretical physics in the 20th century.

His father was Gino Fano, a prominent mathematician, and his brother, Robert Fano is an eminent professor emeritus of
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Martin David Kamen (August 27, 1913, Toronto – August 31, 2002), was co-discoverer (with Sam Ruben) of the isotope carbon-14 on February 27, 1940, at the University of California Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley.
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Freeman Dyson

Freeman Dyson
Born November 15 1923 (age 85)
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Harold Brown may refer to:

Harold P. Brown, inventor of the electric chair
Harold Brown (Secretary of Defense) (born 1927), American physicist, U.S. Secretary of Defense
Harold Ray Brown (born 1946), member of the 1970s band War

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Leon Max Lederman (born July 15, 1922) is an American experimental physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his work with neutrinos. He is Director Emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois.
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George Cowan was an American physical chemist.

A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, he worked on the top secret Manhattan Project at Los Alamos during World War II. He was also the driving influence in founding the Santa Fe Institute.
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Rear Admiral Robley Dunglison Evans (18 August 1846 - 3 January 1912), commanded the U.S. Navy's "Great White Fleet" on its world-wide cruise of 1907-1908.

Born in Floyd County, Virginia, Evans was a member of the Naval Academy class of 1864.
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Victor Weisskopf

Victor Frederick Weisskopf in the 1940s.
Born September 19 1908
Vienna, Austria-Hungary
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Luis W. Alvarez (Cuba June 13, 1911 – September 1, 1988) of San Francisco, California, USA, was a famed Nobel Prize-winning physicist of Hispanic descent, who spent nearly all of his long professional career on the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley.
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Marshall Rosenbluth

Marshall Rosenbluth at UCSD in 1994.
Born January 5 1927
Albany, New York
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Robert Rathbun Wilson (March 4, 1914 – January 16, 2000) was an American physicist who was a group leader of the Manhattan Project, a sculptor, and an architect of Fermi National Laboratory (Fermilab), where he was also the director from 1967-1978.
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John Hundale Lawrence (January 7, 1904 – September 7, 1991) was an American physicist and doctor best known for pioneering the field of nuclear medicine. He was born in Canton, South Dakota and attended college the University of South Dakota before getting his M.D.
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Seth Henry Neddermeyer (16 September 1907, Richmond, Michigan - 29 January 1988, Seattle, Washington) was an American physicist who worked in the Manhattan Project. He had been Carl D. Anderson's student at Caltech.
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Wilfrid Bennett Lewis (June 24, 1908 – January 10, 1987) was a Canadian nuclear scientist and was involved in the development of the CANDU reactor.

Born in Castle Carrock, Cumberland, England, he earned a doctorate at Cavendish Laboratory in 1934 and continued his
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Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls, (June 5 1907, Berlin – September 19 1995, Oxford), was a German-born British physicist.

The son of assimilated Jewish parents, he studied solid-state physics under the tutelage of Werner Heisenberg and Wolfgang Pauli.
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Alvin Martin Weinberg (April 20, 1915 - October 18, 2006) was a nuclear physicist and administrator at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). He came to Oak Ridge, Tennessee in 1945 and remained there until his death in 2006.
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Wolfgang Kurt Hermann "Pief" Panofsky (April 24 1919 – September 24 2007), a German-American physicist.

Early life

Panofsky was born the son of renowned art historian Erwin Panofsky in Berlin, Germany.
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Manson Benedict

Born 9 September 1907
Lake Linden, Michigan
Died 18 September 2006 (aged 100)
Naples, Florida
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