Updated June 26, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
The $100,000 award is given in recognition of scientific and technical achievement in atomic energy. Awarded by the president, it is the U.S. government's oldest science and technology award.
| 1954 | Enrico Fermi |
| 1956 | John von Neumann |
| 1957 | Ernest O. Lawrence |
| 1958 | Eugene P. Wigner |
| 1959 | Glenn T. Seaborg |
| 1961 | Hans A. Bethe |
| 1962 | Edward Teller |
| 1963 | J. Robert Oppenheimer |
| 1964 | Hyman G. Rickover |
| 1966 | Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner, and Fritz Strassman |
| 1968 | John A. Wheeler |
| 1969 | Walter H. Zinn |
| 1970 | Norris E. Bradbury |
| 1971 | Shields Warren and Stafford L. Warren |
| 1972 | Manson Benedict |
| 1976 | William L. Russell |
| 1978 | Harold M. Agnew and Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky |
| 1980 | Alvin M. Weinberg and Rudolf E. Peirls |
| 1981 | W. Bennett Lewis |
| 1982 | Herbert Anderson and Seth Neddermeyer |
| 1983 | Alexander Hollaender and John Lawrence |
| 1984 | Robert R. Wilson and Georges Vendryès |
| 1985 | Norman C. Rasmussen and Marshall N. Rosenblath |
| 1986 | Ernest D. Courant and M. Stanley Livingston |
| 1987 | Luis W. Alvarez and Gerald F. Tape |
| 1988 | Richard B. Setlow and Victor F. Weisskopf |
| 1990 | George A. Cowan and Robley D. Evans |
| 1992 | Leon M. Lederman, Harold Brown, and John S. Foster, Jr. |
| 1993 | Freeman J. Dyson and Liane B. Russell |
| 1995 | Ugo Fano and Martin Kamen |
| 1996 | Richard Garwin, Mortimer Elkind, and H. Rodney Withers |
| 1998 | Maurice Goldhaber and Michael E. Phelps |
| 2000 | Sidney Drell, Sheldon Datz, and Herbert York |
| 2003 | John N. Bahcall, Raymond Davis, Jr., and Seymour Sack |
| 2005 | Arthur H. Rosenfeld |
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