Atoms for Peace Award
Former award
The Atoms for Peace Award was established in 1955 through a grant of $1,000,000 by the Ford 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. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace speech to the United Nations.
The 23 recipients were:
- 1957 – Niels Bohr
- 1958 – George C. de Hevesy
- 1959 – Leó Szilárd and Eugene Paul Wigner
- 1960 – Alvin M. Weinberg and Walter Henry Zinn
- 1961 – Sir John Cockcroft
- 1963 – Edwin M. McMillan and Vladimir I. Veksler
- 1967 – Isidor I. Rabi, W. Bennett Lewis and Bertrand Goldschmidt
- 1968 – Sigvard Eklund, Abdus Salam, and Henry DeWolf Smyth
- 1969 – Aage Bohr, Ben Roy Mottelson, Floyd L. Culler, Jr., Henry Kaplan, Anthony L. Turkevich, Mikhail Ioffe[1] and Compton A. Rennie
- 1969 – Dwight D. Eisenhower
Notes
- ^ M.S.Ioffe was forced to decline the Award by the Soviet government
External links
- 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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- 34th President of the United States (1953–1961)
- Supreme Allied Commander Europe (1951–1952)
- Chief of Staff of the Army (1945–1948)
- Commander, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (1943–1945)
career
- Military career
- 1919 Motor Transport Corps convoy
- Louisiana Maneuvers
- Operation Torch
- European Theater of Operations
- Allied invasion of Sicily
- June 6, 1944, order of the day
- People of Western Europe speech
- Normandy landings
- Operation Veritable
- Berlin Declaration
- Military Governor, U.S. Occupation Zone in Germany
- Supreme Commander of NATO, 1951-1952
(timeline)
- Transition
- 1953 inauguration
- 1957 inauguration
- State of the Union Address
- Cabinet
- Judicial appointments
- Farewell address
- Kennedy transition
- Executive Orders
- Presidential Proclamations
- Crusade in Europe (1948)
- Bibliography
- Birthplace
- Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum, gravesite
- Eisenhower National Historic Site
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial
- Eisenhower Executive Office Building
- Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport
- Eisenhower Fellowships
- Eisenhower Institute
- Eisenhower Monument
- Eisenhower dollar
- U.S. Postage stamps
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center
- Eisenhower Medical Center
- Eisenhower Trophy
- Eisenhower Golf Club
- Eisenhower Theater
- Statue of Dwight D. Eisenhower (U.S. Capitol)
- Fort Eisenhower
- Mount Eisenhower
- Places named for Eisenhower
- Other tributes and memorials
culture
- Eisenhower jacket
- Eisenhower Tree
- Crusade in Europe (1949 television series)
- Backstairs at the White House (1979 miniseries)
- Ike (1979 miniseries)
- Ike: Countdown to D-Day (2004 film)
- Pressure (2014 play)
- Mary "Mamie" Geneva Doud Eisenhower (wife)
- John Eisenhower (son)
- David Eisenhower (grandson)
- Anne Eisenhower (granddaughter)
- Susan Eisenhower (granddaughter)
- Mary Jean Eisenhower (granddaughter)
- Jennie Eisenhower (great-granddaughter)
- Ida Stover Eisenhower (mother)
- Arthur Eisenhower (brother)
- Edgar N. Eisenhower (brother)
- Roy Eisenhower (brother)
- Earl D. Eisenhower (brother)
- Milton S. Eisenhower (brother)
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