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Albert Einstein Award

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Award in theoretical physics (1951–1979)
Not to be confused withAlbert Einstein Medal orAlbert Einstein World Award of Science.

Albert Einstein Award
Awarded foroutstanding achievement in the natural sciences
Sponsored byLewis and Rosa Strauss Memorial Fund
CountryUnited States
Presented byInstitute for Advanced Study
RewardUS$5,000
First award1951
Albert Einstein in his later years.

TheAlbert Einstein Award[a] was an award intheoretical physics, given periodically from 1951 to 1979, that was established to recognize high achievement in thenatural sciences. It was endowed by theLewis and Rosa Strauss Memorial Fund in honor of Albert Einstein's 70th birthday.[1] It was first awarded in 1951 and, in addition to a gold medal of Einstein by sculptorGilroy Roberts,[2] it also included a prize money of $15,000,[3][4] which was later reduced to $5,000.[5][6] The winner was selected by a committee (the first of which consisted ofEinstein,Oppenheimer,von Neumann, andWeyl[7]) of theInstitute for Advanced Study, which administered the award.[4]Lewis L. Strauss used to be one of the trustees of the institute.[8]

This award should not be confused with many others named after the famous physicist, such as theAlbert Einstein World Award of Science given by theWorld Cultural Council (since 1984), theAlbert Einstein Medal given by theAlbert Einstein Society (since 1979), nor with theHans Albert Einstein Award, named after his son and given by theAmerican Society of Civil Engineers (since 1988).[9] It was established much earlier than these, while Einstein was still alive and was a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, andJohn Archibald Wheeler had considered it to be under copyright in 1970.[1] Around the same time, it was described as "the highest of its kind in the United States" byThe New York Times.[10] Some considered it as "the prestigious equivalent of a Nobel Prize".[11]

Recipients

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Albert Einstein Award recipients
YearImageRecipient(s)Ref.
1951Picture of Kurt Gödel circa 1926Kurt Gödel[3]
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Picture of Julian Schwinger in 1965Julian Schwinger
1954Picture of Richard FeynmanRichard Feynman[4]
1958Picture of Edward Teller in 1958Edward Teller[13]
1959Picture of Willard Libby in 1974Willard Libby[14]
1960Picture of Leo Szilard circa 1960Leó Szilárd[15]
1961Picture of Luis Alvarez in April 1969Luis Alvarez[5]
1965Picture of John Archibald Wheeler in 1985John Wheeler[16]
1967Picture of Marshall Rosenbluth in 1994Marshall Rosenbluth[6]
1970Picture of Yuval Ne'eman in 1950Yuval Ne'eman[17]
1972Picture of Eugene Wigner in 1963Eugene Wigner[18]
1978Picture of Stephen Hawking circa 1980Stephen Hawking[11]
1979Tullio Regge[19]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^The award was sometimes mistakenly called theAlbert Einstein Medal because it was accompanied with agold medal

References

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  1. ^ab"Albert Einstein -- Strauss Memorial Fund, 1949-1970".Institute for Advanced Study Director's Office. RetrievedJanuary 16, 2026.
  2. ^Wheeler Honored, Princeton Alumni Weekly, Volume 65, June 8, 1965.
  3. ^abBiography of J. Schwinger fromUniversity of St Andrews,MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive (Last accessed December 17, 2006).
  4. ^abcThe Month at Caltech, April 1954 issueArchived September 25, 2006, at theWayback Machine, p. 20 (Last accessed on September 4, 2007).
  5. ^abThe Americana Annual 1962, An Encyclopedia of the Events of 1961. Americana Corporation. 1962.ISSN 0196-0180.
  6. ^abAstronautics and Aeronautics, 1967. Scientific and Technical Information Branch,NASA. 1968.ISSN 0519-2366.
  7. ^Sigmund; Dawson; Muhlberger (2006).Kurt Godel: The Album.ISBN 3-8348-0173-9.
  8. ^Report of the Director for 1948–53Archived May 21, 2013, at theWayback Machine, Institute for Advanced Studies, p. 30 (1954). (pdf file last accessed on November 11, 2018).
  9. ^Details about the Hans Albert Einstein Award, from theASCE website (Last accessed on September 11, 2007).
  10. ^New Scientist magazine, EBSCO Publishing, vol. 77, p. 272, 1978.
  11. ^abWhite, Gribbin (2002).Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science.ISBN 0-309-08410-5.
  12. ^Biographical Memoirs V.56.National Academy Press. 1987. pp. 134–179.ISBN 0-309-03693-3.
  13. ^Edward Teller—Awards & DegreesArchived October 6, 2006, at theWayback Machine fromLLNL website (Last accessed February 11, 2007).
  14. ^Biography of W. F. Libby at nobelprize.org (Last accessed May 13, 2008).
  15. ^Bernard T. Feld; Gertrud Weiss Szilard, eds. (1972).The Collected Works of Leo Szilard: Scientific Papers. MIT. p. 15.ISBN 0-262-06039-6.
  16. ^McGraw-Hill Modern Scientists and Engineers. 1980.ISBN 0-07-045266-0. p. 302.
  17. ^The World Book Year Book: An Annual Supplement to the World Book. 1971.ISBN 0-7166-0471-X. p. 217
  18. ^Science magazine, vol. 176, p. 896, 1972.
  19. ^David Calhoun, ed. (1980).Yearbook of Science and the Future. Encyclopædia Britannica (UK) Ltd.ISBN 0-85229-375-5.

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