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 for the development or application of peaceful nuclear technology. It was created in response to U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace speech to the United Nations.
The 23 recipients were:
1957 – Niels Bohr 1958 – George C. de Hevesy 1959 – Leó Szilárd and Eugene Paul Wigner 1960 – Alvin M. Weinberg and Walter Henry Zinn 1961 – Sir John Cockcroft 1963 – Edwin M. McMillan and Vladimir I. Veksler 1967 – Isidor I. Rabi, W. Bennett Lewis and Bertrand Goldschmidt 1968 – Sigvard Eklund, Abdus Salam, and Henry DeWolf Smyth 1969 – Aage Bohr, Ben Roy Mottelson, Floyd L. Culler, Jr., Henry Kaplan, Anthony L. Turkevich, Mikhail IoffeM.S.Ioffe was forced to decline the Award by the Soviet government and Compton A. Rennie 1969 – Dwight D. Eisenhower
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External links Files referring to the award and its presentation in the libraries of the MIT, seen at libraries.mit.edu, December 2, 2009 (PDF)