Atoms for Peace Award

The Atoms for Peace Award was established in 1955 through a grant of $1,000,000 by the Ford Motor Company Fund. An independent nonprofit corporation was set up to administer the award.

The 22 recipients were:

• 1957 – Niels Bohr
• 1958 – George C. de Hevesy
• 1959 – Leó Szilárd and Eugene Paul Wigner
• 1960 – Alvin M. Weinberg and Walter H. Zinn
• 1961 – Sir John Cockcroft
• 1963 – Edwin M. McMillan and Vladimir I. Veksler
• 1967 – Isidor I. Rabi, W. Bennett Lewis, and Bertrand L. Goldschmidt
• 1968 – Sigvard Eklund, Abdus Salam, and Henry DeWolf Smyth
• 1969 – Aage N. Bohr, Ben R. Mottelson, Floyd L. Culler, Jr., Henry S. Kaplan, Anthony L. Turkevich, M.S. Ioffe, and Compton A. Rennie