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TheAtoms for Peace Award was established in 1955 through a grant of $1,000,000 by theFord Motor Company Fund. An independent nonprofit corporation was set up to administer the award for the development or application of peaceful nuclear technology. It was created in response to U.S. PresidentDwight D. Eisenhower'sAtoms for Peace speech to theUnited Nations.

The 23 recipients were:

• 1957 –Niels Bohr
• 1958 –George C. de Hevesy
• 1959 –Leó Szilárd andEugene Paul Wigner
• 1960 –Alvin M. Weinberg andWalter Henry Zinn
• 1961 – SirJohn Cockcroft
• 1963 –Edwin M. McMillan andVladimir I. Veksler
• 1967 –Isidor I. Rabi,W. Bennett Lewis andBertrand Goldschmidt
• 1968 –Sigvard Eklund,Abdus Salam, andHenry DeWolf Smyth
• 1969 –Aage Bohr,Ben Roy Mottelson,Floyd L. Culler, Jr.,Henry Kaplan,Anthony L. Turkevich,Mikhail Ioffe^[1] andCompton A. Rennie
• 1969 –Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Files referring to the award and its presentation in the libraries of the MIT, seen at libraries.mit.edu, December 2, 2009 (PDF)

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