The Niels Bohr International Gold Medal is an international
engineering
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award. It has been awarded since 1955 for "outstanding work by an engineer or physicist for the peaceful utilization of atomic energy". The medal is administered by the
Danish Society of Engineers (
Denmark
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) in collaboration with the
Niels Bohr Institute and the
Royal Danish Academy of Sciences. It was awarded 10 times between 1955 and 1982 and again in 2013. The first recipient was
Niels Bohr
Niels Henrik David Bohr (, ; ; 7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962) was a Danish theoretical physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and old quantum theory, quantum theory, for which he received the No ...
himself who received the medal in connection with his 70th birthday.
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2013 laureate
Alain Aspect, regarded as an outstanding figure in optical and atomic physics, was awarded the medal for his experiments on the Bell's inequalities test. It was presented on 7 October 2013 by Queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik at a special event at the Honorary Residence in the Carlsberg Academy.
Recipients
The following scientists have been awarded the Niels Bohr Medal:
*Niels Bohr
Niels Henrik David Bohr (, ; ; 7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962) was a Danish theoretical physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and old quantum theory, quantum theory, for which he received the No ...
, 1955
* John Cockcroft, 1958
*George de Hevesy
George Charles de Hevesy (born György Bischitz; ; ; 1 August 1885 – 5 July 1966) was a Hungarian radiochemist and Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate, recognized in 1943 for his key role in the development of radioactive tracers to study ch ...
, 1961
* Pyotr Kapitsa, 1965
*Isidor Isaac Rabi
Israel Isidor Isaac Rabi (; ; July 29, 1898 – January 11, 1988) was an American nuclear physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944 for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance, which is used in magnetic resonance imaging. H ...
, 1967
* Werner Karl Heisenberg, 1970
* Richard P. Feynman, 1973
* Hans A. Bethe, 1976
* Charles H. Townes, 1979
*John Archibald Wheeler
John Archibald Wheeler (July 9, 1911April 13, 2008) was an American theoretical physicist. He was largely responsible for reviving interest in general relativity in the United States after World War II. Wheeler also worked with Niels Bohr to e ...
, 1982
* Alain Aspect, 2013
* Jens Nørskov, 2018
* Ewine van Dishoeck, 2022
See also
* UNESCO Niels Bohr Medal
* List of engineering awards
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* List of physics awards
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References
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Awards established in 1955
Danish science and technology awards
Physics awards
1955 establishments in Denmark