Leo Szilard Lectureship Award
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Date | 1974 |
Presented by | American Physical Society |
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 in commemoration of physicist Leo Szilard.[1][3]
"In the year's of Szilard's life and activity it became clearer than ever before how great the responsibility of scientists is to the society. And, to a large extent, it is due to Szilard that this awareness began to spread in the scientific community." - Andrei Sakharov[3]
It is often awarded to physicists early in their careers who are active in areas such as environmental issues, arms control, or science policy. As of 2015 the recipient is given $3,000 plus $2,000 travel expenses and is expected to lecture at an APS meeting and at educational or research laboratories, to promote awareness of their activities.[2]
Recipients[]
The award is given yearly and was first presented in 1974.[2]
- 1974
- 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
- 1985 James B. Pollack, O. Brian Toon, , Richard P. Turco, Carl Sagan, , Paul J. Crutzen
- 1986 Arthur Rosenfeld
- 1987
- 1988 Robert H. Williams
- 1989
- 1990 Theodore Postol
- 1991 John H. Gibbons
- 1992 Kurt Gottfried
- 1993 Ray Kidder,
- 1994 Herbert York
- 1995 Evgeny Velikhov, Roald Sagdeev
- 1996
- 1997
- 1998 David Baird Goldstein,
- 1999 John Alexander Simpson
- 2000
- 2001 John Harte
- 2002
- 2003 Robert H. Socolow
- 2004
- 2005 David K. Barton, Roger Falcone, Daniel Kleppner, , , , , , , , ,
- 2006 Paul G. Richards
- 2007 James E. Hansen
- 2008 , [4]
- 2009 Raymond Jeanloz
- 2010 Frank von Hippel
- 2011
- 2012 Siegfried Hecker
- 2013 Geoffrey West
- 2014 M. V. Ramana, Ramamurti Rajaraman[5]
- 2015 Ashok Gadgil[6]
- 2016 Joel Primack[7]
- 2017 James Timbie[8]
- 2018
- 2019 Zia Mian
- 2020 France A. Córdova
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Leo Szilard Lectureship Award is Funded". APS News. American Physical Society. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Leo Szilard Lectureship Award". American Physical Society. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c 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.
- ^ 2016 Leo Szilard Lectureship Award Recipient
- Awards of the American Physical Society
- Science in society