Albert Einstein Medal
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The Albert Einstein Medal is an award presented by the Albert Einstein Society in Bern. First given in 1979, the award is presented to people for "scientific findings, works, or publications related to Albert Einstein" each year.[1]
Recipients
[edit]Source: Einstein Society
- 2023: Luc Blanchet
- 2020: Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) scientific collaboration[2]
- 2019: Clifford Martin Will[3]
- 2018: Juan Martín Maldacena[4]
- 2017: LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration
- 2016: Alexei Yuryevich Smirnov[5]
- 2015: Stanley Deser, Charles Misner[6]
- 2014: Tom W. B. Kibble
- 2013: Roy Kerr[7]
- 2012: Alain Aspect
- 2011: Adam Riess,[8] Saul Perlmutter[9]
- 2010: Hermann Nicolai
- 2009: Kip Stephen Thorne
- 2008: Beno Eckmann
- 2007: Reinhard Genzel
- 2006: Gabriele Veneziano
- 2005: Murray Gell-Mann
- 2004: Michel Mayor
- 2003: George F. Smoot
- 2001: Johannes Geiss,[10] Hubert Reeves[11]
- 2000: Gustav Tammann
- 1999: Friedrich Hirzebruch
- 1998: Claude Nicollier
- 1996: Thibault Damour
- 1995: Chen Ning Yang
- 1994: Irwin Shapiro
- 1993: Max Flückiger, Adolf Meichle
- 1992: Peter Bergmann
- 1991: Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr.
- 1990: Roger Penrose
- 1989: Markus Fierz
- 1988: John Archibald Wheeler
- 1987: Jeanne Hersch
- 1986: Rudolf Mössbauer
- 1985: Edward Witten
- 1984: Victor Weisskopf
- 1983: Hermann Bondi
- 1982: Friedrich Traugott Wahlen
- 1979: Stephen Hawking
See also
[edit]- Albert Einstein Award, Lewis and Rosa Strauss Memorial Fund
- Albert Einstein World Award of Science, World Cultural Council
- Einstein Prize, American Physical Society
- List of physics awards
- UNESCO Albert Einstein medal, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
References
[edit]- ^ "Einstein Medal". albert einstein society. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
- ^ "Event Horizon Telescope received Einstein Medal". www.simonsfoundation.org. 27 January 2020.
- ^ Ellinghausen, Megan (10 May 2019). "Clifford Martin Will Albert Einstein Medal Recipient". explore.reseach.ufl.edu.
- ^ "Juan Maldacena Receives 2018 Einstein Medal from the Albert Einstein Society | Institute for Advanced Study". ias.edu. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
- ^ "Alexei Smirnov received Einstein Medal". www.ictp.it. 3 February 2016.
- ^ Burrows, Leah (14 January 2015). "Stanley Deser and Charles Misner received Einstein Medal". www.brandeis.edu.
- ^ Stewart, Ashleigh (20 December 2013). "Einstein Medal for NZ professor". Stuff.co.nz. Fairfax New Zealand. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
- ^ "Adam Riess received Einstein Medal". hubblesite.org.
- ^ Knobel, Lance (23 February 2011). "Saul Perlmutter received Einstein Medal".
- ^ "Johannes Geiss received Einstein Medal". www.swissinfo.ch. 11 June 2001.
- ^ Freeman, Alan (20 October 2023). "Hubert Reeves receives Einstein Medal". theglobeandmail.com.
