Enrico Fermi Award

Jewish recipients of the Enrico Fermi Award documented in the ThankJews directory. Jews are about 51% of all recipients — while making up roughly 0.2% of the world's population.

51%of all recipients are Jewish

12 documented recipients

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Hyman Rickover1964

Father of the US nuclear navy; Enrico Fermi Award (1964)

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Manson Benedict1972

Designed the Manhattan Project's uranium-enrichment plant; Fermi Award (1972)

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Herbert Anderson1982

Enrico Fermi's closest collaborator on the first nuclear reactor; Fermi Award (1982)

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Alexander Hollaender1983

Founder of radiation biology; Fermi Award (1983)

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Ernest Courant1986

Co-invented strong focusing, the basis of modern particle accelerators; Fermi Award (1986); son of Richard Courant

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Richard Setlow1988

Discovered DNA repair of ultraviolet damage; Fermi Award (1988)

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George Cowan1990

Manhattan Project radiochemist; founded the Santa Fe Institute; Fermi Award (1990)

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Enrico Fermi Award

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Harold Brown1992

Physicist; US Secretary of Defense (1977-81); Fermi Award (1992)

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Liane Brauch Russell1993

Vienna-born geneticist of chromosomal sex determination; Fermi Award (1993)

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Mortimer Elkind1996

Radiation biologist of cellular repair; Fermi Award (1996)

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Seymour Sack2003

Nuclear physicist at Livermore; Fermi Award (2003)

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Arthur Rosenfeld2005

'Godfather of energy efficiency'; Fermi Award (2005)

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