Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award

The Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award was instituted in 1959 in honor of Ernest Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron and Nobel Laureate immediately after his death by the U.S. Department of Energy. It is endowed with $ 50,000 annually and was first awarded since 1994 every two years in seven categories: chemistry, environmental science and engineering, biology ( with medicine), materials science, national security, nuclear engineering, physics.

Criteria and selection

It is awarded to U.S. scientists and engineers for exceptional research achievements (especially for research in the remit of the Department of Energy ). The winners should therefore not intended established scientists in the middle of their career be ( about 20 years after their graduation or their university degree ) and is an honor for lifetime achievement. It is connected to a gold medal with the image of Lawrence.

The award winners are nominated by 4,000 so invited research organizations and scientists and determined by a committee.

Award winners

1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1990 | 1991 | 1993 | 1994 | 1996 | 1998 | 2002 | 2004 | 2006 | 2009 | 2011

1960-1970

1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 |

1960:

• Harvey Brooks
• John S. Foster, Jr.
• Isadore Perlman
• Norman Ramsey
• Alvin M. Weinberg

1961:

• Leo Brewer
• Henry Hurwitz, Jr.
• Conrad L. Longmire
• Wolfgang Panofsky
• Kenneth E. Wilzbach

1962:

• Andrew A. Benson
• Richard Feynman
• Herbert Goldstein
• Anthony L. Turkevich
• Herbert York

1963:

• Herbert J. C. Kouts
• James Rainwater
• Louis Rosen
• James M. Taub
• Cornelius A. Tobias

1964:

• Jacob Bigeleisen
• Albert L. Latter
• Harvey M. Pratt
• Marshall Rosenbluth
• Theos J. Thompson

1965:

• George Cowan
• Floyd M. Culler
• Milton C. Edlund
• Theodore B. Taylor
• Arthur C. Upton

1966:

• Harold M. Agnew
• Ernest C. Anderson
• Murray Gell-Mann
• John R. Huizenga
• Paul R. Vanstrum

1967:

• Mortimer M. Elkind
• John M. Googin
• Allen F. Henry
• John O. Rasmussen
• Robert N. Thorn

1968:

• James R. Arnold
• E. Richard Cohen
• Val Fitch
• Richard Latter

1969:

• Geoffrey Chew
• Don T. Cromer
• Ely M. Gelbard
• F. Newton Hayes
• John Nuckolls

1970:

• William J. Bair
• James W. Cobble
• Joseph M. Hendrie
• Michael M. May
• Andrew Sessler

1971-1980

1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1980 |

1971:

• Thomas B. Cook
• Robert L. Fleischer
• Robert L. Hellens
• P. Buford Price
• Robert M. Walker

1972:

• Charles C. Cremer
• Sidney Drell
• Marvin Goldman
• David A. Shirley
• Paul F. doubt

1973:

• Louis Baker
• Seymour sack
• Thomas E. Wainwright
• James Robert Weir
• Sheldon Wolff

1974:

• Joseph Cerny
• Henry C. Honeck
• Charles A. McDonald
• Chester R. Richmond

1975:

• Evan H. Appelman
• Charles E. Elderkin
• William A. Lokke
• Burton Richter
• Samuel Chao Chung Ting

1976:

• A. Philip Bray
• James Cronin
• Kaye D. Lathrop
• Adolphus L. Lotts
• Edwin D. McClanahan

1977:

• James Bjorken
• John L. Emmett
• F. William Studier
• Gareth Thomas
• Dean A. Waters

1980:

• Donald W. Barr
• B. Grant Logan
• Nicholas P. Samios
• Charles D. Scott

1981-1990

1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1990 |

1981:

• Martin Blume
• Lee Yuan Tseh
• Fred R. Mynatt
• Paul B. Selby
• Lowell L. Wood

1982:

• George F. Chapline, Jr.
• Mitchell Feigenbaum
• Michael J. Lineberry
• Nicholas Turro
• Raymond E. Wildungsmauer

1983:

• James F. Jackson
• Michael E. Phelps
• Paul H. Rutherford
• Mark S. Wrighton
• George B. Zimmerman

1984:

• Robert W. Conn
• Peter Hagelstein
• Siegfried S. Hecker
• Robert B. Laughlin
• Kenneth N. Raymond

1985:

• Anthony P. Malinauskas
• William H. Miller
• David Nygren
• Gordon C. Osbourn
• Betsy Sutherland
• Thomas A. Weaver

1986:

• James J. Duderstadt
• Helen T. Edwards
• Joe W. Gray
• C. Bradley Moore
• Gustavus Simmons
• James L. Smith

1987:

• James W. Gordon
• Miklos Gyulassy
• Sung- Hou Kim
• James L. Kinsey
• J. Robert Merriman
• David E. Moncton

1988:

• Mary Gaillard
• Richard T. Lahey, Jr.
• Chain tsuan Liu
• Gene H. McCall
• Alexander Pines
• Joseph S. Wall

1990:

• John J. Dorning
• James R. Norris
• S. Thomas Picraux
• Wayne J. Shotts
• Maury Tigner
• F. Ward Whicker

1991-2011

1991 | 1993 | 1994 | 1996 | 1998 | 2002 | 2004 | 2006 | 2009 | 2011

1991:

• Zachary Fisk
• Richard Fortner
• Rulon Linford
• Peter G. Schultz
• Richard E. Smalley
• J. Pace VanDevender

1993:

• James G. Anderson
• Robert Bergman
• Alan R. Bishop
• Yoon I. Chang
• Robert K. Moyzis
• John W. Shanner
• Carl E. Wieman

1994:

• John D. Boice, Jr.
• E. Michael Campbell
• Gregory J. Kubas
• Edward William Larsen
• John Lindl
• Gerard M. Ludtka
• George F. Smoot
• John E. Till

1996:

• Charles Roger Alcock
• Mina J. Bissell
• Thom H. Dunning, Jr.
• Charles V. Jakowatz, Jr.
• Sunil K. Sinha
• Theofanis G. Theofanous

1998:

• Dan Gabriel Cacuci
• Joanna S. Fowler
• Laura H. Greene
• Steven Koonin
• Mark H. Thiemens
• Ahmed Zewail

2002:

• C. Jeffrey Brinker
• Claire M. Fraser
• Bruce T. Goodwin
• Keith O. Hodgson
• Saul Perlmutter
• Benjamin D. Santer
• Paul J. Turinsky

2004:

• Richard B. Elkind
• Nathaniel J. Fish
• Claire Ellen Max
• Fred N. Mortensen
• Richard J. Saykally
• Gregory W. Swift

2006:

• Paul Alivisatos and Moungi Bawendi, materials science
• Malcolm J. Andrews, National Security
• Arup K. Chakraborty, Biology
• My Hang V. Huynh, chemistry
• Marc Kamionkowski, Physics
• John Zachara, Environmental Science
• Steven Zinkle, nuclear engineering

2009:

• Sunney Xie
• Joan F. Brennecke, University of Notre Dame
• Wim Leemans, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Zhi- Xun Shen, SLAC National Accelerator National Laboratory and Stanford University
• Hurricane Omar, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• William Dorland, University of Maryland

2011:

• David E. Chavez, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Thomas P. Guilderson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Lois Curfman McInnes, Barry F. Smith, Argonne National Laboratory
• Paul C. Canfield, Ames Laboratory
• Amit Goyal, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Riccardo Betti, University of Rochester
• Bernard Matthew Poelker, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
• Mark B. Chadwick, Los Alamos National Laboratory