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Atoms for Peace Award
The Atoms for Peace Award was established in 1955 through a grant of $1,000,000 by the Ford Motor Company Fund. An independent nonprofit corporation was set up to administer the award for the development or application of peaceful nuclear technology. It was created in response to U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace speech to the United Nations. 
The 23 recipients were:
- 1957 - Niels Bohr
- 1958 - George C. de Hevesy
- 1959 - Leó Szilárd and Eugene Paul Wigner
(1960)
- Atoms for Peace Award (1960)
- Enrico Fermi Award (1980)
Books.
- "The Physical Theory of Neutron Chain Reactors", Alvin M. Weinberg & Eugene P. Wigner, University of Chicago Press, 1958.
- "Reflections on Big Science", Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1967.
- "The Second Nuclear Era: A New Start for Nuclear Power", Alvin M. Weinberg ; Russ Manning, editor; New York: Praeger, 1985; .