Enrico Fermi Award

The award has been administered through the Department of Energy since its establishment in 1977. The recipient of the award receives $100,000, a certificate signed by the President and the Secretary of Energy and a gold medal featuring the likeness of Enrico Fermi.

Winners

• 1956 – John von Neumann
• 1957 – Ernest O. Lawrence
• 1958 – Eugene P. Wigner
• 1959 – Glenn T. Seaborg
• 1961 – Hans A. Bethe
• 1962 – Edward Teller
• 1963 – J. Robert Oppenheimer
• 1964 – Hyman G. Rickover
• 1966 – Lise Meitner; Otto Hahn; Fritz Strassmann
• 1968 – John A. Wheeler
• 1969 – Walter Zinn
• 1970 – Norris E. Bradbury
• 1971 – Shields Warren; Stafford L. Warren
• 1972 – Manson Benedict
• 1976 – William L. Russell
• 1978 – Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky; Harold M. Agnew
• 1980 – Rudolf E. Peierls; Alvin M. Weinberg
• 1981 – W. Bennett Lewis
• 1982 – Herbert L. Anderson; Seth Neddermeyer
• 1983 – Alexander Hollaender; John H. Lawrence
• 1984 – Robert R. Wilson; Georges Vendryes
• 1985 – Norman Rasmussen; Marshall Rosenbluth
• 1986 – Ernest Courant; M. Stanley Livingston
• 1987 – Luis Alvarez; Gerald F. Tape
• 1988 – Richard B. Setlow; Victor F. Weisskopf
• 1990 – George A. Cowan; Robley D. Evans
• 1992 – Harold Brown; John S. Foster, Jr.; Leon M. Lederman
• 1993 – Liane B. Russell; Freeman Dyson
• 1995 – Ugo Fano; Martin D. Kamen
• 1996 – Mortimer M. Elkind; H. Rodney Withers; Richard L. Garwin
• 1998 – Maurice Goldhaber; Michael E. Phelps
• 2000 – Sheldon Datz; Sidney D. Drell; Herbert F. York
• 2003 – John N. Bahcall; Raymond Davis, Jr.; Seymour Sack
• 2005 – Arthur H. Rosenfeld
• 2009 – John B. Goodenough; Siegfried Hecker
• 2012 – Mildred Dresselhaus; Burton Richter
• 2013 – Andrew Sessler; Allen J. Bard
• 2014 – Claudio Pellegrini; Charles V. Shank
• 2023 – Darleane C. Hoffman; Gabor A. Somorjai
• 2024 – Héctor D. Abruña; Paul Alivisatos; John H. Nuckolls