Year | Awardee[1] | Institution | Topic |
2024 |
Don Lincoln |
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL |
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2023 |
Jeffrey Bennett |
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO |
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2021 |
Helen Czerski |
University College London, London, England |
An Ocean of Physics |
2020 |
James Kakalios |
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN |
Physics of Superheroes |
2019 |
Jodi Cooley[2] |
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX |
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2018 |
Clifford V. Johnson |
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA |
Black Holes and Time Travel in Your Everyday Life |
2017 |
John C. Brown |
University of Glasgow, Scotland |
Black Holes and White Rabbits |
2016 |
Margaret Wertheim[3] |
Institute for Figuring, Los Angeles, CA |
Of Corals and the Cosmos: A Story of Hyperbolic Space |
2015 |
David Weintraub[4] |
Vanderbilt University |
Exoplanets: The Pace of Discovery and the Potential Impact on Humanity |
2014 |
Donald W. Olson |
Texas State University, San Marcos, TX |
Celestial Sleuth: Using Physics and Astronomy to Solve Mysteries in Art, History, and Literature |
2011 |
James E. Hansen |
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies |
Halting Human-Made Climate Change: The Case for Young People and Nature |
2010 |
Robert Scherrer |
Vanderbilt University |
Science and Science Fiction |
2009 |
Lee Smolin |
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics |
The Role of the Scientist as a Public Intellectual |
2008 |
Michio Kaku |
City University of New York |
Physics of the Impossible |
2007 |
Neil deGrasse Tyson |
Astrophysicist and Director, Hayden Planetarium, American Museum of Natural History, New York |
Adventures in Science Literacy |
2006 |
Lisa Randall[5] |
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, |
Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions |
2005 |
Wendy Freedman |
Carnegie Observatories, Pasadena, CA |
The Accelerating Universe |
2004 |
Anton Zeilinger |
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria |
Quantum Experiments: From Philosophical Curiosity to a New Technology |
2003 |
Sylvester James Gates |
University of Maryland, College Park, MD |
Why Einstein Would Love Spaghetti in Fundamental Physics |
2002 |
Barry C. Barish[6] |
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA |
Catching the Waves with LIGO |
2001 |
Virginia Trimble |
University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA |
Cosmology: Man's Place in the Universe |
2000 |
Terrence P. Walker |
The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH |
The Big Bang: Seeing Back to the Beginning |
1999 |
Michael S. Turner |
University of Chicago |
Cosmology: From Quantum Fluctuations to the Expanding Universe |
1998 |
Sidney R. Nagel |
The James Franck Institute |
Physics at the Breakfast Table - Or Waking Up to Physics |
1997 |
Max Dresden |
Stanford University and Stanford Linear Accelerator |
Scales, Macroscopic, Microscopic, Mesoscopic: Their Autonomy and Interrelation |
1996 |
Margaret Geller |
Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Optical Infrared Astronomy Division |
1995 |
Peter Franken |
University of Arizona |
Municipal Waste, Recycling, and Nuclear Garbage |
1994 |
N. David Mermin |
Cornell University |
More Quantum Magic |
1993 |
Charles P. Bean |
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York |
An Invitation to Table-Top Physics Inside and in the Open Air |
1992 |
Gabriel Wienreich |
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor |
What Science Knows about Violins And What It Doesn't Know, Am. J. Phys. 61, 1067 (1993). |
1991 |
Paul K. Hansma[7] |
University of California at Santa Barbara |
Seeing Atoms with the New Generation of Microscopes, Am. J. Phys. 59, 1067 (1991). |