Atoms for Peace Award
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The Atoms for Peace Award was established in 1955 through a grant of $1,000,000 by the Ford Motor Company
Fund. An independent nonprofit corporation was set up to administer the award for the development or application of peaceful nuclear technology. It was created in response to U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's
Atoms for Peace
speech to the United Nations.
The 22 recipients were:
Ford Motor Company
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Fund. An independent nonprofit corporation was set up to administer the award for the development or application of peaceful nuclear technology. It was created in response to U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...
Atoms for Peace
Atoms for Peace
"Atoms for Peace" was the title of a speech delivered by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower to the UN General Assembly in New York City on December 8, 1953....
speech to the United Nations.
The 22 recipients were:
- 1957 - Niels BohrNiels BohrNiels Henrik David Bohr was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr mentored and collaborated with many of the top physicists of the century at his institute in...
- 1958 - George C. de HevesyGeorge de HevesyGeorge Charles de Hevesy, Georg Karl von Hevesy, was a Hungarian radiochemist and Nobel laureate, recognized in 1943 for his key role in the development of radioactive tracers to study chemical processes such as in the metabolism of animals.- Early years :Hevesy György was born in Budapest,...
- 1959 - Leó SzilárdLeó SzilárdLeó Szilárd was an Austro-Hungarian physicist and inventor who conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, patented the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi, and in late 1939 wrote the letter for Albert Einstein's signature that resulted in the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb...
and Eugene Paul Wigner - 1960 - Alvin M. WeinbergAlvin M. WeinbergAlvin Martin Weinberg was an American nuclear physicist who was the administrator at Oak Ridge National Laboratory during and after the Manhattan Project period. He came to Oak Ridge, Tennessee in 1945 and remained there until his death in 2006.-Early years in Chicago: Alvin Weinberg was born...
and Walter Henry ZinnWalter Henry ZinnWalter Henry Zinn was a nuclear physicist at the University of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory.- Life and work :... - 1961 - Sir John CockcroftJohn CockcroftSir John Douglas Cockcroft OM KCB CBE FRS was a British physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for splitting the atomic nucleus with Ernest Walton, and was instrumental in the development of nuclear power....
- 1963 - Edwin M. McMillan and Vladimir I. Veksler
- 1967 - Isidor I. Rabi, W. Bennett Lewis and Bertrand L. Goldschmidt
- 1968 - Sigvard EklundSigvard EklundDr. Sigvard Arne Eklund was a director of the International Atomic Energy Agency security council from 1961 to 1981.-Career:...
, Abdus SalamAbdus SalamMohammad Abdus Salam, NI, SPk Mohammad Abdus Salam, NI, SPk Mohammad Abdus Salam, NI, SPk (Urdu: محمد عبد السلام, pronounced , (January 29, 1926– November 21, 1996) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his work on the electroweak unification of the...
, and Henry DeWolf SmythHenry DeWolf SmythHenry DeWolf "Harry" Smyth was an American physicist, diplomat, and bureaucrat who played a number of key roles in the early development of nuclear energy. Educated at Princeton University and the University of Cambridge, he was a faculty member in Princeton's Department of Physics from 1924 to... - 1969 - Aage Bohr, Ben R. Mottelson, Floyd L. Culler, Jr., Henry S. Kaplan, Anthony L. TurkevichAnthony L. TurkevichAnthony Leonid Turkevich was an American radiochemist who was the first to determine the composition of the Moon's surface using an alpha scattering spectrometer on the Surveyor 5 mission in 1967. He had also worked on nuclear weapons during and after World War II, as well as peaceful uses of...
and Compton A. Rennie - 1969 - Dwight D. EisenhowerDwight D. EisenhowerDwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...
Links
- Files referring to the award and its presentation in the libraries of the MIT, seen at libraries.mit.edu, December 2, 2009 (PDF)