University of Chicago President Paul Alivisatos has been named one of this year’s winners of the Enrico Fermi Presidential Award, a prestigious science and technology honor given by the U.S.

University of Chicago President Paul Alivisatos was awarded the Enrico Fermi Presidential Award—one of the most prestigious science and technology honors bestowed by the U.S. government—at a Jan. 10 ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the call for nominations for the 2026 Enrico Fermi Presidential Award. The Fermi Award recognizes individual(s) of international stature for exceptional ...

March 28, 2023 — The White House today announced that Darleane C. Hoffman and Gabor A. Somorjai are the recipients of the Enrico Fermi Presidential Award. Darleane C. Hoffman, Ph.D. is a nuclear ...

The Biden-Harris Administration will be honoring Darleane C. Hoffman and Gabor A. Somorjai as recipients of the 2023 Enrico Fermi Presidential Award in a virtual ceremony June 6 th, 2023, at 3:00 p.m.

Enrico Fermi (; 29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954) was an Italian physicist, best known for his work on Chicago Pile-1 (the first nuclear reactor), and for his contributions to the development of ...

President Clinton's choices for the winners of the 1994-95 Enrico Fermi Award--Freeman Dyson, a professor, emeritus, of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., and Liane B.

A UC Berkeley alumnus, professor and director emeritus of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory was honored at the White House for his accomplishments in energy science Tuesday. President Barack ...

Dr. Edward Teller, the 54-year-old Jewish physicist who is known as America’s “father of the H-bomb,” was today presented with the 1962 Atomic Energy Commission Enrico Fermi Award worth $50,000. The ...

WASHINGTON, DC -- Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham today named John Bahcall, Raymond Davis, Jr. and Seymour Sack as winners of the Enrico Fermi Award. The Fermi award is a presidential award and ...