JEWISH RECIPIENTS
OF THE ENRICO FERMI AWARD
(53% of
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The Enrico Fermi Award is one of the world's most
prestigious science
and technology prizes. Awarded by the US Government, it carries a
$375,000 honorarium and "recognizes scientists of international stature
for their lifetimes of exceptional achievement in the development, use,
control, or production of energy (broadly defined to include the
science and technology of nuclear, atomic, molecular, and particle
interactions and their effects on mankind and the environment)."1
- John von Neumann
(1956)
- Eugene Wigner (1958)
- Hans Bethe 2
(1961)
- Edward Teller (1962)
- J. Robert Oppenheimer (1963)
- Hyman Rickover (1964)
- Lise Meitner (1966)
- Manson Benedict (1972)
- Wolfgang Panofsky (1978)
- Rudolf Peierls (1980)
- Alvin Weinberg (1980)
- Herbert Anderson (1982)
- Alexander Hollaender (1983)
- Marshall Rosenbluth (1985)
- Ernest Courant 3
(1986)
- Richard Setlow (1988)
- Victor Weisskopf (1988)
- George Cowan (1990)
- Harold Brown (1992)
- Leon Lederman (1992)
- Liane Brauch Russell (1993)
- Ugo Fano (1995)
- Martin Kamen (1995)
- Mortimer Elkind (1996)
- Richard Garwin (1996)
- Maurice Goldhaber (1998)
- Sheldon Datz (2000)
- Sidney Drell (2000)
- John Bahcall (2003)
- Seymour Sack (2003)
- Arthur Rosenfeld (2005)
NOTES
1. http://www.sc.doe.gov/fermi.
2. Jewish mother, non-Jewish
father.
3. Jewish father, non-Jewish mother.
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