Andrew Gemant Award
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The Andrew Gemant Award is a prize awarded by the American Institute of Physics
to a person who has made substantial cultural, artistic, or humanistic contributions to physics.http://www.aip.org/aip/awards/gemawd.html. The award is named after Andrew Gemant
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American Institute of Physics
The American Institute of Physics promotes science, the profession of physics, publishes physics journals, and produces publications for scientific and engineering societies. The AIP is made up of various member societies...
to a person who has made substantial cultural, artistic, or humanistic contributions to physics.http://www.aip.org/aip/awards/gemawd.html. The award is named after Andrew Gemant
Andrew Gemant
Andrew Gemant was a renowned physicist, remembered in part by the eponymous Andrew Gemant Award. His work included a series of fundamental papers on viscoelasticity and , published in the mid 20th Century. Andrew Gemant was born in Nagyvarad, Hungary on July 27, 1895. He served in the...
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| 1987 | Philip Morrison Philip Morrison Philip Morrison, was Institute Professor Emeritus and Professor of Physics Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .-Early life and education:... |
| 1988 | Freeman Dyson Freeman Dyson Freeman John Dyson FRS is a British-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician, famous for his work in quantum field theory, solid-state physics, astronomy and nuclear engineering. Dyson is a member of the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists... |
| 1989 | Gerald Holton Gerald Holton Gerald Holton is Mallinckrodt Research Professor of Physics and Research Professor of the History of Science, Emeritus, at Harvard University.Born 1922 in Berlin, he grew up in Vienna before emigrating in 1938... |
| 1990 | Jeremy Bernstein |
| 1991 | Cyril Stanley Smith Cyril Stanley Smith Cyril Stanley Smith was a renowned metallurgist and historian of science. Smith is perhaps most famous for his work on the Manhattan Project where he was responsible for the production of fissionable metals.... |
| 1992 | Martin Aitken Martin Aitken Martin Aitken FRS is a British archaeometrist.He organized an annual meetings which became the "Symposium on Archaeometry and Archaeological Prospection".He retired in 1989.-External links:... |
| 1993 | Abraham Pais Abraham Pais Abraham Pais was a Dutch-born American physicist and science historian. Pais earned his Ph.D. from University of Utrecht just prior to a Nazi ban on Jewish participation in Dutch universities during World War II... |
| 1994 | Spencer Weart |
| 1995 | Robert R. Wilson Robert R. Wilson Robert Rathbun Wilson was an American physicist who was a group leader of the Manhattan Project, a sculptor, and an architect of Fermi National Laboratory , where he was also the director from 1967–1978.... |
| 1996 | Alan Lightman Alan Lightman Alan Lightman is an American physicist, writer, and social entrepreneur. He is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author of the international bestseller Einstein's Dreams. He was the first professor at MIT to receive a joint appointment in the sciences and the... |
| 1997 | Steven Weinberg Steven Weinberg Steven Weinberg is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his contributions with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow to the unification of the weak force and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles.... |
| 1998 | Stephen Hawking Stephen Hawking Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA is an English theoretical physicist and cosmologist, whose scientific books and public appearances have made him an academic celebrity... |
| 1999 | Paula Apsell |
| 2000 | James Trefil James Trefil James S. Trefil is an American physicist and author of more than thirty books. Much of his published work focuses on science for the general audience. Dr... |
| 2001 | Lawrence Krauss |
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| 2003 | Brian Greene Brian Greene Brian Greene is an American theoretical physicist and string theorist. He has been a professor at Columbia University since 1996. Greene has worked on mirror symmetry, relating two different Calabi-Yau manifolds... |
| 2004 | Alan Friedman |
| 2005 | Hans Christian von Baeyer Hans Christian von Baeyer Hans Christian von Baeyer is a Chancellor Professor of Physics at the College of William and Mary. His books include Information: The New Language of Science and Warmth Disperses and Time Passes: The History of Heat.Von Baeyer was born in 1938.... |
| 2006 | Marcia Bartusiak |
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| 2009 | Brian Schwartz |
| 2010 | Daniel R. Altschuler |
| 2011 | Stephen Maran |