Not to be confused with the Albert Einstein Gold Medal awarded by UNESCO , the Albert Einstein Medal awarded by the Swiss Albert Einstein Society, the Albert Einstein Prize awarded by the .
The Einstein Award ( Albert Einstein Award ) - an award in the field of theoretical physics, awarded by the Institute for Advanced Study (USA). It was established in 1949 and was awarded in 1951-1979. It included a medal and a cash prize [1] .
The most prestigious physics award of its time, called in line with the Nobel Prize [2] .
Laureates
- 1951 - Gödel, Kurt and Schwinger, Julian
- 1954 - Feynman, Richard Phillips
- 1958 - Teller, Edward
- 1959 - Libby, Willard Frank
- 1960 - Sylard, Leo
- 1961 - Alvarez, Louis
- 1965 - Wheeler, John Archibald
- 1967 - Rosenblut, Marshall Nicholas
- 1970 - Neeman, Yuval
- 1972 - Wigner, Eugene
- 1978 - Hawking, Stephen William
- 1979 - Regge, Tullio