Albert Einstein Medal
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The Albert Einstein Medal is an award presented by the Albert Einstein Society in Bern. First given in 1979, the award is presented to people for "scientific findings, works, or publications related to Albert Einstein" each year.{{cite web |title=Einstein Medal |url=http://www.einstein-bern.ch/index.php?lang=en&show=medaille |publisher=albert einstein society |access-date=5 April 2013}}
Recipients
Source: [http://www.einstein-bern.ch/en/einstein-society Einstein Society]
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- 2025: Robert Wald
- 2023: Luc Blanchet
- 2020: Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) scientific collaboration{{cite web|url=https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2020/01/27/event-horizon-telescope-einstein-medal/|website=www.simonsfoundation.org|title=Event Horizon Telescope received Einstein Medal|date=27 January 2020}}
- 2019: Clifford Martin Will{{cite web|url=https://explore.research.ufl.edu/albert-einstein-medal.html|title=Clifford Martin Will Albert Einstein Medal Recipient|website=explore.research.ufl.edu|date=10 May 2019|first=Megan|last=Ellinghausen}}
- 2018: Juan Martín Maldacena{{cite web|url=https://www.ias.edu/news/juan-maldacena-receives-2018-einstein-medal-albert-einstein-society|title=Juan Maldacena Receives 2018 Einstein Medal from the Albert Einstein Society | Institute for Advanced Study|website=ias.edu|access-date=19 March 2019}}
- 2017: LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration
- 2016: Alexei Yuryevich Smirnov{{Cite web|url=https://www.ictp.it/news/2016/2/ictp-physicist-awarded-einstein-medal|website=www.ictp.it|title=Alexei Smirnov received Einstein Medal|date=3 February 2016}}
- 2015: Stanley Deser, Charles Misner{{cite web|url=https://www.brandeis.edu/now/2015/january/deser-einstein%20.html|website=www.brandeis.edu|title=Stanley Deser and Charles Misner received Einstein Medal|date=14 January 2015|first=Leah|last=Burrows}}
- 2014: Tom W. B. Kibble
- 2013: Roy Kerr{{cite web|last=Stewart|first=Ashleigh|title=Einstein Medal for NZ professor|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/science/8101704/Einstein-Medal-for-NZ-professor|work=Stuff.co.nz|publisher=Fairfax New Zealand|access-date=23 February 2014|date=20 December 2013}}
- 2012: Alain Aspect
- 2011: Adam Riess,{{cite web|url=https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2011/07/2823-Image.html|website=hubblesite.org|title=Adam Riess received Einstein Medal}} Saul Perlmutter{{cite web|url=https://www.berkeleyside.org/2011/02/23/berkeley-labs-perlmutter-wins-einstein-medal|title=Saul Perlmutter received Einstein Medal|date=23 February 2011|first=Lance|last=Knobel}}
- 2010: Hermann Nicolai
- 2009: Kip Stephen Thorne
- 2008: Beno Eckmann
- 2007: Reinhard Genzel
- 2006: Gabriele Veneziano
- 2005: Murray Gell-Mann
- 2004: Michel Mayor
- 2003: George F. Smoot
- 2001: Johannes Geiss,{{Cite web|url=https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/science/astrophysicist-receives-albert-einstein-medal/2074846|website=www.swissinfo.ch|date=11 June 2001|title=Johannes Geiss received Einstein Medal}} Hubert Reeves{{Cite web|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-astrophysicist-hubert-reeves-illuminated-the-marvels-of-science-and/|website=theglobeandmail.com|first=Alan|last=Freeman|date=20 October 2023|title=Hubert Reeves receives Einstein Medal}}
- 2000: Gustav Tammann
- 1999: Friedrich Hirzebruch
- 1998: Claude Nicollier
- 1996: Thibault Damour
- 1995: Chen Ning Yang
- 1994: Irwin Shapiro
- 1993: Max Flückiger, Adolf Meichle
- 1992: Peter Bergmann
- 1991: Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr.
- 1990: Roger Penrose
- 1989: Markus Fierz
- 1988: John Archibald Wheeler
- 1987: Jeanne Hersch
- 1986: Rudolf Mössbauer
- 1985: Edward Witten
- 1984: Victor Weisskopf
- 1983: Hermann Bondi
- 1982: Friedrich Traugott Wahlen
- 1979: Stephen Hawking
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See also
- Albert Einstein Award, Lewis and Rosa Strauss Memorial Fund
- Albert Einstein World Award of Science, World Cultural Council
- Einstein Prize, American Physical Society
- List of physics awards
- UNESCO Albert Einstein medal, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
References
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