Leo Szilard Lectureship Award
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| Leo Szilard Lectureship Award | |
|---|---|
| Date | 1974 |
| Presented by | American Physical Society |
| Website | https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/szilard.cfm  |
The Leo Szilard Lectureship Award (originally called the Leo Szilard Award)[1] is given annually by the American Physical Society (APS) for "outstanding accomplishments by physicists in promoting the use of physics for the benefit of society".[2] It is given internationally, and commemorates physicist Leo Szilard.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).
- 1974 David R. Inglis
- 1975 Bernard T. Feld
- 1976 Richard Garwin
- 1977 not awarded
- 1978 Matthew Meselson
- 1979 Sherwood Rowland
- 1980 Sidney Drell
- 1981 Henry Way Kendall, Hans Bethe
- 1982 Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky
- 1983 Andrei Sakharov[3]
- 1984 Kosta Tsipis
- 1985 James B. Pollack, O. Brian Toon, Thomas P. Ackerman, Richard P. Turco, Carl Sagan, John W. Birks, Paul J. Crutzen
- 1986 Arthur Rosenfeld
- 1987 Thomas B. Cochran
- 1988 Robert H. Williams
- 1989 Anthony Nero
- 1990 Theodore Postol
- 1991 John H. Gibbons
- 1992 Kurt Gottfried
- 1993 Ray Kidder, Roy Woodruff
- 1994 Herbert York
- 1995 Evgeny Velikhov, Roald Sagdeev
- 1996 David Hafemeister
- 1997 Thomas L. Neff
- 1998 David Baird Goldstein, Howard Geller
- 1999 John Alexander Simpson
- 2000 Jeremiah David Sullivan
- 2001 John Harte
- 2002 Henry C. Kelly
- 2003 Robert H. Socolow
- 2004 Marc Ross
- 2005 David K. Barton, Roger Falcone, Daniel Kleppner, Frederick K. Lamb, Ming K. Lau, Harvey L. Lynch, David Moncton, David Montague, David E. Mosher, William Priedhorsky, Maury Tigner, David R. Vaughan
- 2006 Paul G. Richards
- 2007 James E. Hansen
- 2008 Anatoli Diyakov, Pavel Podvig[4]
- 2009 Raymond Jeanloz
- 2010 Frank von Hippel
- 2011 John F. Ahearne
- 2012 Siegfried Hecker
- 2013 Geoffrey West
- 2014 M. V. Ramana, Ramamurti Rajaraman[5]
- 2015 Ashok Gadgil[6]
- 2016 Joel Primack[7]
References
- ^ "Leo Szilard Lectureship Award is Funded". APS News. American Physical Society. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Awardeeswas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Sakharov, Andrei (1983). "A message from Gorky". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. 39 (6): 2. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
- ^ "Pavel Podvig receives Szilard Award". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. April 21, 2008. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
- ^ "Physicists Share American Physical Society's 2014 Leo Szilard Award". MacArthur Foundation. October 22, 2013. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
- ^ Chen, Allan. "Ashok Gadgil, Director of Environmental Energy Technologies Division, to Receive the 2015 APS Szilard Award". Energy Technologies Area, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
- ^ Stephens, Tim (October 22, 2015). "Physicist Joel Primack honored by American Physical Society". University of California, Santa Cruz.