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 who have "rendered outstanding services" in connection with Albert Einstein each year.
[edit] Recipients
- 2007 - Reinhard Genzel
- 2006 - Gabriele Veneziano
- 2005 - Murray Gell-Mann
- 2004 - Michel Mayor
- 2003 - George F. Smoot
- 2001 - Johannes Geiss, Hubert Reeves
- 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 Wahlen
- 1979 - Stephen Hawking
[edit] See also
- Albert Einstein Award, (Lewis and Rosa Strauss Memorial Fund)
- Albert Einstein World Award of Science, (World Cultural Council)
- Einstein Prize, (American Physical Society)
[edit] External links
- Albert Einstein Medal Laureates from the awarding society's official webpage.
