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E. O. Lawrence Award

HONOR

Awarded since 1959 to multiple American physicists, generally every other year but this varies. In honor of Ernest Lawrence, the award comes with a $50,000 honorarium.

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
George A. Cowan
Physicist
15-Feb-1920 20-Apr-2012 Founder, Santa Fe Institute
James W. Cronin
Physicist
29-Sep-1931   Time not necessarily reversible
Sidney D. Drell
Physicist
13-Sep-1926   In the Shadow of the Bomb
Richard Feynman
Physicist
11-May-1918 15-Feb-1988 Surely he's joking
Val Fitch
Physicist
10-Mar-1923   Time not necessarily reversible
Murray Gell-Mann
Physicist
15-Sep-1929   Quarks and strangeness
Robert B. Laughlin
Physicist
1-Nov-1950   Fractional quantum Hall effect
Saul Perlmutter
Astronomer
1959   Accelerating expansion of the universe
James Rainwater
Physicist
9-Dec-1917 31-May-1986 Determined shapes of nuclei
Norman F. Ramsey
Physicist
27-Aug-1915 4-Nov-2011 Energy levels of atoms
Burton Richter
Physicist
22-Mar-1931   Co-Discoverer of J/psi meson
Richard E. Smalley
Chemist
6-Jun-1943 28-Oct-2005 Co-Discovered fullerines
George F. Smoot
Physicist
20-Feb-1945   Big bang
Samuel C. C. Ting
Physicist
27-Jan-1936   Co-Discoverer of J/psi meson
Ahmed H. Zewail
Chemist
26-Feb-1946   Femtochemistry


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