The Enrico Fermi Award
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman - Continuing Education |
| Discipline(s): |
Nuclear Engineering Physics |
| Learning Resource Type: | Community - Award/Recognition/Scholarship |
| Media Type: | WWW |
| Author(s): | The Enrico Fermi Prize |
| Description: | "The Enrico Fermi Award is a Presidential award, one of the oldest and most prestigious science and technology awards given by the U.S. Government. It recognizes scientists of international stature for their lifetimes of exceptional achievement in the development, use, control, or production of energy (broadly defined to include the science and technology of nuclear, atomic, molecular, and particle interactions and their effects on mankind and the environment). President Eisenhower and the Atomic Energy Commission honored Enrico Fermi with a special award for his lifetime of accomplishments in physics and, in particular, for the development of atomic energy on November 16, 1954, 12 days before the Italian-born naturalized American citizen died of cancer at the age of 53. The Enrico Fermi Presidential Award was established in 1956 as a memorial to the 1938 Nobel Laureate in physics, who achieved the first nuclear chain reaction-and thereby initiated the atomic age-on December 2, 1942 in a squash court under the stands of the University of Chicago's football stadium. The first Fermi Award recipients included physicists John von Neumann, Ernest 0. Lawrence, Hans Bethe, and Edward Teller. The Enrico Fermi Award is given to encourage excellence in energy science and technology; to show appreciation to scientists, engineers, and science policymakers who have given unstintingly over their lifetimes to benefit mankind through energy science and technology; and to inspire people of all ages through the example of Enrico Fermi, whose achievements opened new scientific and technological realms, and the Fermi Award laureates, who continued in his tradition. The Fermi Award is administered by Department of Energy's Office of Science." |
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| Use of Resource: | Top award in nuclear physics and engineering. |
| Difficulty: | Medium |
| Interactivity Level: | Very Low |
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| Publication Date: | 2008 |
| Platform/Format: | WWW |
| Cost: | Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.er.doe.gov/fermi/index.htm |
| Metadata: | IEEE LOM Record |
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