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Rumford Prize

HONOR

Awarded since 1839 by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for "contributions to the fields of heat and light, broadly interpreted."

1839
Robert Hare  
1862
John Ericsson  
1865
Daniel Treadwell  
1866
Alvan Clark  
1869
George Henry Corliss  
1871
Joseph Harrison, Jr.  
1873
Lewis Morris Rutherford  
1875
John William Draper  
1880
J. Willard Gibbs  
1883
Henry Augustus Rowland  
1886
Samuel P. Langley  
1888
Albert A. Michelson  
1891
Edward Charles Pickering  
1895
Thomas Edison  
1898
James E. Keeler  
1899
Charles F. Brush  
1900
Carl Barus  
1901
Elihu Thomson  
1902
George Ellery Hale  
1905
Ernest Fox Nichols  
1907
Edward G. Acheson  
1909
Robert W. Wood  
1910
Charles Gordon Curtis  
1911
James Mason Crafts  
1912
Frederic Eugene Ives  
1913
Joel Stebbins  
1914
William D. Coolidge  
1915
Charles Greeley Abbot  
1917
Percy Williams Bridgman  
1918
Theodore Lyman  
1920
Irving Langmuir  
1925
Henry Norris Russell  
1926
Arthur H. Compton  
1928
Edward Leamington Nichols  
1930
John S. Plaskett  
1931
Karl T. Compton  
1933
Harlow Shapley  
1937
William W. Coblentz  
1939
George Russell Harrison  
1941
Vladimir Zworykin  
1943
Charles Edward Mees  
1945
Edwin H. Land  
1947
E. Newton Harvey  
1949
Ira S. Bowen  
1951
Herbert E. Ives  
1953
Enrico Fermi  
1953
Lars Onsager  
1953
Willis Lamb  
1955
James Franck  
1957
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar  
1959
George Wald  
1961
Charles H. Townes  
1963
Hans Bethe  
1965
Samuel C. Collins  
1965
William D. McElroy  
1967
Cornelis B. Van Niel  
1967
Robert H. Dicke  
1968
Maarten Schmidt  
1971
(large shared group, for long-baseline interferometry)  
1973
E. Bright Wilson  
1976
Bruno Rossi  
1980
Chen Ning Yang  
1980
Gregorio Weber  
1980
Robert L. Mills  
1985
Hans G. Dehmelt, Martin Deutsch, Norman F. Ramsey, and Vernon W. Hughes  
1986
Frank J. Low, Gerry Neugebauer, and Robert B. Leighton  
1992
James R. Norris, Joseph J. Katz, and George Feher  
1996
John C. Mather  
2008
Sidney D. Drell, Sam Nunn, William J. Perry, and George Shultz  



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