The Leo Szilard Lectureship Award (originally called the Leo Szilard Award)
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".
[ It is given internationally in commemoration of physicist ]Leo Szilard
Leo Szilard (; hu, Szilárd Leó, pronounced ; born Leó Spitz; February 11, 1898 – May 30, 1964) was a Hungarian-German-American physicist and inventor. He conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, patented the idea of a nuclear ...
.environmental issues
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, arms control
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, or science policy
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. 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.[
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Recipients
The award is given yearly and was first presented in 1974.Richard Garwin
Richard Lawrence Garwin (born April 19, 1928) is an American physicist, best known as the author of the first hydrogen bomb design.
In 1978, Garwin was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributing to the application ...
* 1977 not awarded
* 1978 Matthew Meselson
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* 1979 Sherwood Rowland
* 1980 Sidney Drell
Sidney David Drell (September 13, 1926 – December 21, 2016) was an American theoretical physicist and arms control expert.
At the time of his death, he was professor emeritus at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and senior fello ...
* 1981 Henry Way Kendall
Henry Way Kendall (December 9, 1926 – February 15, 1999) was an American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1990 jointly with Jerome Isaac Friedman and Richard E. Taylor "for their pioneering investigations concerning dee ...
, Hans Bethe
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* 1982 Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky
* 1983 Andrei Sakharov
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Thomas P. Ackerman
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, Richard P. Turco
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, Carl Sagan
Carl Edward Sagan (; ; November 9, 1934December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator. His best known scientific contribution is research on ...
, John W. Birks
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, Paul J. Crutzen
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* 1986 Arthur Rosenfeld
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* 1987 Thomas B. Cochran
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* 1988 Robert H. Williams
* 1989 Anthony Nero
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* 1990 Theodore Postol
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* 1991 John H. Gibbons
* 1992 Kurt Gottfried
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* 1993 Ray Kidder
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Kidder was a weapons physicis ...
, Roy Woodruff
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Woodruff was born of English and Scottish ancestry to Charles Woodruff and Electa A. (Wallace) Woodruff ...
* 1994 Herbert York
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* 1995 Evgeny Velikhov
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, Roald Sagdeev
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* 1996 David Hafemeister
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* 1997 Thomas L. Neff
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* Thomas the Ap ...
* 1998 David Baird Goldstein, Howard Geller
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* 1999 John Alexander Simpson
* 2000 Jeremiah David Sullivan
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* 2001 John Harte
* 2002 Henry C. Kelly
* 2003 Robert H. Socolow
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* 2004 Marc Ross Marc or MARC may refer to:
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* 2005 David K. Barton, Roger Falcone, Daniel Kleppner
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, Frederick K. Lamb Frederick may refer to:
People
* Frederick (given name), the name
Nobility
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* Frederic ...
, Ming K. Lau
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, Harvey L. Lynch
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, David Moncton, David Montague
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, David E. Mosher, William Priedhorsky, Maury Tigner Maury Tigner (born 22 April 1937) is an American physicist working on particle accelerators and experimental particle physics.
Tigner studied physics at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute until 1958 and received a PhD degree from Cornell Unive ...
, David R. Vaughan
* 2006 Paul G. Richards
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* 2007 James E. Hansen
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* 2008 Anatoli Diyakov
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, Pavel PodvigFrank von Hippel
Frank N. von Hippel (born 1937) is an American physicist. He is Professor and Co-Director of Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.
He is Arthur von Hippel's s ...
* 2011 John F. Ahearne
* 2012 Siegfried Hecker
Siegfried S. Hecker (born October 2, 1943) is an American metallurgist and nuclear scientist. He served as Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1986 to 1997 and is now affiliated with Stanford University, where he is research prof ...
* 2013 Geoffrey West
* 2014 M. V. Ramana
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, Ramamurti Rajaraman
Ramamurti Rajaraman (born 11 March 1939) is an Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics at the School of Physical Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University. He was also the co-Chairman of the International Panel on Fissile Materials and a memb ...
Joel Primack
Joel R. Primack (born July 14, 1945) is a professor of physics and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz and is a member of the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics.
Primack received his A.B. from Princeton University in ...
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* 2018 Edwin Stuart Lyman
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* 2019 Zia Mian
* 2020 France A. Córdova
See also
* List of physics awards
This list of physics awards is an index to articles about notable awards for physics.
The list includes lists of awards by the American Physical Society of the United States, and of the Institute of Physics of the United Kingdom, followed by a li ...
References
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