The Leo Szilard Lectureship Award (originally called the Leo Szilard Award)
is given annually by the
American Physical Society
The American Physical Society (APS) is a not-for-profit membership organization of professionals in physics and related disciplines, comprising nearly fifty divisions, sections, and other units. Its mission is the advancement and diffusion of k ...
(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 ...
.
It is often awarded to physicists early in their careers who are active in areas such as 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.[
]
Recipients
The award is given yearly and was first presented in 1974.
* 1974 David R. Inglis
* 1975 Bernard T. Feld
* 1976 Richard Garwin
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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
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At the time of his death, he was professor emeritus at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and senior fel ...
* 1981 Henry Way Kendall
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, Hans Bethe
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* 1982 Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky
* 1983 Andrei Sakharov
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* 1984 Kosta Tsipis
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* 1985 James B. Pollack
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, O. Brian Toon, Thomas P. Ackerman
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, Richard P. Turco, Carl Sagan
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, John W. Birks, Paul J. Crutzen
* 1986 Arthur Rosenfeld
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* 1987 Thomas B. Cochran
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* 1988 Robert H. Williams
* 1989 Anthony Nero
* 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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, Roy 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
* 1998 David Baird Goldstein, Howard Geller
* 1999 John Alexander Simpson
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* 2000 Jeremiah David Sullivan
* 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
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, Roger Falcone Roger Wirth Falcone (born 27 June 1952) is an American physicist at University of California, Berkeley where he is a professor of physics. He is an Elected Fellow at The Optical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he currently ...
, Daniel Kleppner
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, Frederick K. Lamb, Ming K. Lau, Harvey L. Lynch, David Moncton
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, David Montague
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, David E. Mosher
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, William Priedhorsky
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, Maury Tigner Maury Tigner (born 22 April 1937) is an American physicist working on particle accelerators and experimental particle physics.
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, David R. Vaughan
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* 2006 Paul G. Richards
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* 2007 James E. Hansen
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* 2008 Anatoli Diyakov, Pavel Podvig
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* 2009 Raymond Jeanloz
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* 2010 Frank von Hippel
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* 2011 John F. Ahearne
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* 2012 Siegfried Hecker
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* 2013 Geoffrey West
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* 2014 M. V. Ramana, Ramamurti Rajaraman
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* 2015 Ashok Gadgil
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* 2016 Joel Primack
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* 2017 James Timbie2016 Leo Szilard Lectureship Award Recipient
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* 2018 Edwin Stuart Lyman
* 2019 Zia Mian
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* 2020 France A. Córdova
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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 lis ...
References
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