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O. Lawrence Award HONOR Awarded since 1959 to multiple American physicists, generally every other year but this varies. In honor of <a href="/people/974/000055809/">Ernest Lawrence</a>, the award comes with a $50,000 honorarium. <table border=1 class="sortable" id="sort_grunk"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/206/000165708/">George A. Cowan</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Feb-1920</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Apr-2012</tt></td> <td>Founder, Santa Fe Institute</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/826/000099529/">James W. Cronin</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Sep-1931</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Time not necessarily reversible</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/284/000106963/">Sidney D. Drell</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Sep-1926</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>In the Shadow of the Bomb</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/584/000026506/">Richard Feynman</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-May-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Feb-1988</tt></td> <td>Surely he's joking</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/838/000099541/">Val Fitch</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Mar-1923</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Time not necessarily reversible</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/310/000023241/">Murray Gell-Mann</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Sep-1929</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Quarks and strangeness</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/071/000099771/">Robert B. Laughlin</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Nov-1950</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Fractional quantum Hall effect</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/211/000165713/">Saul Perlmutter</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1959</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Accelerating expansion of the universe</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/901/000099604/">James Rainwater</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Dec-1917</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-May-1986</tt></td> <td>Determined shapes of nuclei</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/028/000099728/">Norman F. Ramsey</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Aug-1915</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Nov-2011</tt></td> <td>Energy levels of atoms</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/905/000099608/">Burton Richter</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Mar-1931</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Co-Discoverer of J/psi meson</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/802/000100502/">Richard E. Smalley</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jun-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Oct-2005</tt></td> <td>Co-Discovered fullerines</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/921/000137510/">George F. Smoot</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Feb-1945</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Big bang</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/908/000099611/">Samuel C. C. Ting</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Jan-1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Co-Discoverer of J/psi meson</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/830/000100530/">Ahmed H. Zewail</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Feb-1946</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Femtochemistry</td> </tr> </table> Do you know something we don't? <a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=165705" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a> Copyright ©2012 Soylent Communications </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"><div class="contentf"><center><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a> <a style="color: #0000ff" href="http://mapper.nndb.com/maps/364/000000364/"><img src="http://mapper.nndb.com/t/364/364/s364.jpg" width=128> Plains All American Pipeline</a> Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</center></div> <div class="contentf"><center> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </center></div> <div class="contentf"><center>BibliographiesNNDB has added thousands of bibliographies for people, organizations, schools, and general topics, listing more than 50,000 books and 120,000 other kinds of references. 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