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

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