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Albert Einstein in his later years. The Albert Einstein Award (sometimes mistakenly called the Albert Einstein Medal because it was accompanied with a gold medal) was an award in theoretical physics, given periodically from 1951 to 1979, that was established to recognize high achievement in the natural sciences.
It was first awarded in 1951 and included a prize money of $15,000, [29] [30] which was later reduced to $5,000. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] The winner is selected by a committee (the first of which consisted of Einstein, Oppenheimer , von Neumann and Weyl [ 33 ] ) of the Institute for Advanced Study , which administers the award. [ 30 ]
Gödel was awarded (with Julian Schwinger) the first Albert Einstein Award in 1951, and was also awarded the National Medal of Science, in 1974. [40] Gödel was elected a resident member of the American Philosophical Society in 1961 and a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1968.
Schwinger's awards and honors were numerous even before his Nobel win. They include the first Albert Einstein Award (1951), the U.S. National Medal of Science (1964), honorary D.Sc. degrees from Purdue University (1961) and Harvard University (1962), and the Nature of Light Award of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (1949).
There are several scientific or humanitarian prizes and awards named after Albert Einstein: Albert Einstein Award , (Lewis and Rosa Strauss Memorial Fund), first awarded in 1951 Albert Einstein Medal , (Albert Einstein Society, Bern), first awarded in 1979
Albert Einstein Award: award in theoretical physics 1951 Albert Einstein: United States of America: Q577432: Kalinga Prize: UNESCO science award 1951 Odisha: India: UNESCO: Q782022: Three Physicists Prize: scholarly prize 1951 Henri Abraham Eugène Bloch Georges Bruhat: France: École Normale Supérieure: Q1282608: Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig ...
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