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Leo Szilard Lectureship Award


To recognize outstanding accomplishments by physicists in promoting the use of physics for the benefit of society in such areas as the environment, arms control, and science policy. The lecture format is intended to increase the visibility of those who have promoted the use of physics for the benefit of society. The award consists of $1,000, a certificate citing the contributions of the recipient, plus $2,000 travel expenses for lectures given by the recipient at an APS meeting and at two or more educational institutions or research laboratories in the year following the award. The lectures should be especially aimed at physicists early in their careers.

Deadline: Monday, July 1, 2013 

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2013 Recipient:

Geoffrey West
Santa Fe Institute

West


 Past Recipients:
2012: Siegfried Hecker
2011: John F. Ahearne
2010: Frank von Hippel
2009: Raymond Jeanloz
2008: Anatoli Diyakov
Pavel Podvig
2007: James E. Hansen
2006: Paul G. Richards
2005: David K. Barton, Roger Falcone, Daniel Kleppner, Frederick K. Lamb, Ming K. Lau, Harvey L. Lynch, David Moncton, David Montague, David E. Mosher, William Priedhorsky, Maury Tigner, David R. Vaughan
2004: Marc Ross
2003: Robert Socolow
2002: Henry C. Kelly
2001: John Harte
2000: Jeremiah David Sullivan
1999: John Alexander Simpson
1998: David Baird Goldstein
Howard Geller
1997: Thomas L. Neff
1996: David Hafemeister
1995: Evgany P. Velikhov
Roald Z Sagdeev
1994: Herbert F. York
1993: Ray Kidder, Roy Woodruff
1992: Kurt Gottfried
1991: John H. Gibbons
1990: Theodore A. Postol
1989: Anthony Nero
1988: Robert H. Williams
1987: Thomas B. Cochran
1986: Arthur Rosenfeld
1985: James B. Pollack, O. Brian Toon, Thomas P. Ackerman, Richard P. Turco, Carl Sagan, John W. Birks, and Paul J. Crutzen
1984: Kosta Tsipis
1983: Andrei Sakharov
1982: W.K.H. Panofsky
1981: Henry Kendall, Hans Bethe
1980: Sidney Drell
1979: Sherwood Rowland
1978: Matthew Meselson
1976: Richard Garwin
1975: Bernard Feld
1974: David R. Inglis
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