The Erwin Marx Award is an award made every two years, in odd numbered years, jointly by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is a non-profit professional association headquartered in New York City that is dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence...

 and the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society at the IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference. It is awarded to an individual for his or her contribution over at least ten years in the field of pulsed power technology.

The recipient receives $

United States dollar

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2000 and a plaque

Commemorative plaque

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, and delivers the Erwin Marx Lecture at conference.

Named after a German electrical engineer

Erwin Otto Marx

Erwin Otto Marx was a German electrical engineer who invented the Marx generator, a device for producing high voltage electrical pulses.He worked as an engineering scientist in Braunschweig from 1918 to 1950 where he performed research and development for electrical power distribution via long...

, it was awarded for the first time in 1981 at the 3rd IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference.