Leo Szilard Lectureship Award
The Leo Szilard Lectureship Award (originally called the Leo Szilard Award) is given annually by the American Physical Society (APS) for "outstanding accomplishments by physicists in promoting the use of physics for the benefit of society". It is given internationally in commemoration of physicist Leo Szilard. It is often awarded to physicists early in their careers who are active in areas such as environmental issues, arms control, or science policy. the recipient is given $3,000 plus $2,000 travel expenses and is expected to lecture at an APS meeting and at educational or research laboratories, to promote awareness of their activities. Recipients The award is given yearly and was first presented in 1974. 1974 David R. Inglis 1975 Bernard T. Feld 1976 Richard Garwin 1977 not awarded 1978 Matthew Meselson 1979 Sherwood Rowland 1980 Sidney Drell 1981 Henry Way Kendall, Hans Bethe 1982 Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky 1983 Andrei Sakharov 1984 Kosta Tsipis 1985 James B. Pollack, O. Brian Toon, Thomas P. Ackerman, Richard P. Turco, Carl Sagan, John W. Birks, Paul J. Crutzen 1986 Arthur Rosenfeld 1987 Thomas B. Cochran 1988 Robert H. Williams 1989 Anthony Nero 1990 Theodore Postol 1991 John H. Gibbons 1992 Kurt Gottfried 1993 Ray Kidder, Roy Woodruff 1994 Herbert York 1995 Evgeny Velikhov, Roald Sagdeev 1996 David Hafemeister 1997 Thomas L. Neff 1998 David Baird Goldstein, Howard Geller 1999 John Alexander Simpson 2000 Jeremiah David Sullivan 2001 John Harte 2002 Henry C. Kelly 2003 Robert H. Socolow 2004 Marc Ross 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 2006 Paul G. Richards 2007 James E. Hansen 2008 Anatoli Diyakov, Pavel Podvig 2009 Raymond Jeanloz 2010 Frank von Hippel 2011 John F. Ahearne 2012 Siegfried Hecker 2013 Geoffrey West 2014 M. V. Ramana, Ramamurti Rajaraman 2015 Ashok Gadgil 2016 Joel Primack 2017 James Timbie 2018 Edwin Stuart Lyman 2019 Zia Mian 2020 France A. Córdova 2021 Steve Fetter 2022 Michael E. Mann 2023 Laura Grego See also David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics List of physics awards References Awards of the American Physical Society Science in society Science lecture series Recurring events established in 1974 1974 establishments in the United States Physics events