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. The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is a Cabinet-level department of the United States government responsible for energy policy and nuclear safety. ... Enrico Fermi in the 1940s. ...

Previous winners

• 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 Strassman
• 1964 – H.G. Rickover
• 1963 – J.R. Oppenheimer
• 1962 – Edward Teller
• 1961 – Hans A. Bethe
• 1959 – Glenn T. Seaborg
• 1958 – Eugene P. Wigner
• 1957 – Ernest O. Lawrence
• 1956 – John von Neumann

John N. Bahcall (December 30, 1934 – August 17, 2005) was an American astrophysicist. ... Sheldon Datz was born July 21, 1927 in New York City, son of Clara and Jacob Datz. ... Sidney Drell is an American theoretical physicist and arms control expert. ... Herbert F. York is an accomplished American physicist who has held numerous administrative positions (including the first directorship of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Chief Scientist of the Advanced Research Projects Agency), as well as numerous acacademic positions. ... Physicist, who in 1957 established that neutrinos have negative helicity. ... Ugo Fano, 1912 - 2001 Ugo Fano, a leader in theoretical physics in the 20th century was born in Torino, Italy, in 1912 and passed away on February 13, 2001 in Chicago, Illinois, at the age of 88. ... Martin David Kamen (1913 – 2002), was co-discoverer (with Sam Ruben) of the isotope carbon-14 on February 27th, 1940, at the University of California Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley which was part of the Manhattan Project. ... Freeman Dyson at Harvard University in 2004 Freeman John Dyson (born December 15, 1923) is an English-born American physicist and mathematician. ... Harold Brown is the name of several notable people: Harold P. Brown, inventor of the electric chair, a form of capital punishment used in the United States as a predecessor of the fatal injection. ... Leon Max Lederman (born July 15, 1922) is an American experimental physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988 for his work on neutrinos. ... Portrait of Evans Rear Admiral Robley Dunglison Evans (18 August 1846 - 3 January 1912), commanded the U.S. Navys Great White Fleet on its world-wide cruise of 1907-1908. ... External links National Academy of Sciences biography Categories: People stubs | 1908 births | 2002 deaths | Manhattan Project | Physicists ... Luis Walter Alvarez (June 13, 1911 – September 1, 1988) of San Francisco, California, USA, was a famed physicist who worked at the University of California, Berkeley. ... Marshall Nicholas Rosenbluth (5 February 1927–-28 September 2003) was an American nuclear physicist. ... Robert Rathbun Wilson (March 4, 1914–January 16, 2000) was an American physicist who was the youngest 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. ... Seth Neddermeyer was a physicist who worked in the Manhattan project. ... Wilfrid Bennett Lewis (June 24, 1908 – January 10, 1987) was a Canadian nuclear scientist and was involved in the development of the CANDU reactor. ... Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls, (June 5, 1907, Berlin – September 19, 1995, Oxford), was a German-born British physicist. ... Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky, a German-American physicist, was born the son of art historian, Erwin Panofsky. ... Norris Bradbury in his later years. ... John Archibald Wheeler (born 1911) is an American theoretical physicist. ... Otto Hahn (March 8, 1879 – July 28, 1968) was a German chemist. ... Lise Meitner ca. ... ... Hyman G. Rickover (1955) Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, U.S. Navy, (January 27, 1900 – July 8, 1986) was known as the Father of the Nuclear Navy, which as of November 2005 had produced 199 nuclear-powered submarines, and 19 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and cruisers, though many of these U... J. Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb, served as the first director of Los Alamos National Laboratory, beginning in 1943. ... Edward Teller in 1958 as Director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. ... Hans Albrecht Bethe (born July 2, 1906), is a German-American physicist from Strassburg (then part of Germany, now Strasbourg, France). ... Glenn T. Seaborg Glenn Theodore Seaborg (April 19, 1912 – February 25, 1999) was an American chemist, who was prominent in the discovery and isolation of many transuranic elements (including plutonium, during the Manhattan Project), for which he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1951. ... Eugene Wigner (left) and Alvin Weinberg Eugene Paul Wigner (Hungarian Wigner Pál JenÅ‘) (November 17, 1902 – January 1, 1995) was a Hungarian physicist and mathematician. ... Ernest Orlando Lawrence (August 8, 1901 - August 27, 1958) was an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known for his invention of the cyclotron. ... John von Neumann in the 1940s. ...

See also

• List of awards
• Prizes named after people
• Vannevar Bush Award
• Ankusk Kapoor Award

A list of famous prizes, medals, and awards including cups, trophies, bowls, badges, state decorations etc. ... This is a list of prizes that are named after people. ... The Vannevar Bush Award has been given each year since 1980 by National Science Foundation to persons who contributed most toward the welfare of mankind and the nation. The award is named after the American scientist Vannevar Bush (1890-1974). ...

External link

• DOE website on the Fermi award