JEWISH RECIPIENTS OF THE ATOMS FOR PEACE AWARD
(50% of recipients)
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Listed below are recipients of the Atoms for Peace Award who were Jewish (or of half-Jewish descent, as noted).  Presented to twenty-two recipients between the years 1957-1969, the Atoms for Peace Award was given in recognition of major contributions to the development of the peaceful applications of atomic energy.
  • Niels Bohr 1 (1957)
  • George de Hevesy (1958)
  • Leo Szilard (1959)
  • Eugene Wigner (1959)
  • Alvin Weinberg (1960)
  • Vladimir Veksler (1963)
  • Isidor I. Rabi (1967)
  • Bertrand Goldschmidt (1967)
  • Ben Mottelson (1969)
  • Henry S. Kaplan (1969)
  • Mikhail Solomonovich Ioffe (1969)
NOTES
1. Jewish mother, non-Jewish father.
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