Atoms for Peace Award

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The Atoms for Peace Award was an international prize established during the Cold War to honor significant contributions to the peaceful use of nuclear energy and the promotion of international cooperation in atomic science.

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instanceOf international award
peace prize
science and technology award
awardFrequency irregular
countryOfOrigin United States
currency United States dollar
linked to: US dollar
dissolvedOrAbolished 1969
fieldOfWork international relations
nuclear engineering
nuclear physics
firstRecipient Niels Bohr
foundedBy American industrialist Henry Ford II
linked to: Henry Ford II

Ford Motor Company
genre scientific award
hasAwardedFor promotion of international cooperation in nuclear science
significant contributions to peaceful uses of atomic energy
hasRecipient Abdus Salam
Alvin M. Weinberg
Enrico Fermi
Ernest Walton
Eugene Wigner
George C. de Hevesy
linked to: George de Hevesy

Hans Bethe
International Atomic Energy Agency
Isidor Isaac Rabi
linked to: I. I. Rabi

J. Robert Oppenheimer
John Cockcroft
Lise Meitner
Luis W. Alvarez
linked to: Luis Alvarez

Niels Bohr
Otto Hahn
Sigvard Eklund
United Nations
inception 1959
languageOfWorkOrName English
locationOfFoundation United States
mainSubject atomic science
international cooperation
peaceful use of nuclear energy
monetaryValue $75,000
namedAfter Atoms for Peace speech
purpose to encourage peaceful applications of nuclear energy
to recognize leadership in international atomic cooperation
relatedTo Atoms for Peace program
International Atomic Energy Agency
sponsor Ford Motor Company
Ford Motor Company Fund
linked to: Ford Motor Company
timePeriod Cold War

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Walter Zinn awardReceived Atoms for Peace Award
Alvin M. Weinberg awardReceived Atoms for Peace Award