E. O. Lawrence Award

This is a beta version of NNDB

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.

Name Occupation Birth Death Known 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

Do you know something we don't?
Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile

NNDB MAPPER

Plains All American Pipeline

Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.

Bibliographies

NNDB has added thousands of bibliographies for people, organizations, schools, and general topics, listing more than 50,000 books and 120,000 other kinds of references. They may be accessed by the "Bibliography" tab at the top of most pages, or via the "Related Topics" box in the sidebar. Please feel free to suggest books that might be critical omissions.