Sidney Drell#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 1627 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1994 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/people/sidney_d_drell |
Sidney Drell passed away December 21, 2016.
Positions Held
- 1998 Professor Emeritus, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University (Professor of Theoretical Physics and Deputy Director before retiring)
- since 1998 Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution
Fields of Scholarship
- Nuclear arms control
Honours and Awards
- 2005 11th annual Heinz Award for Public Policy, Washington, D.C.
- 2001 Heinz R. Pagels Human Rights of Scientists Award, New York Academy of Sciences
- 2000 The Enrico Fermi Award, presented on behalf of the President of the United States and the Secretary by the U.S. Department of Energy, for a lifetime of achievement in the field of nuclear energy
- 1998 I. Ya. Pomeranchuk Prize, Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow
- 1996 Gian Carlo Wick Commemorative Medal Award, ICSC–World Laboratory
- 1994 Co-recipient of the 1989 “Ettore Majorana - Erice - Science for Peace Prize”
- 1994 Woodrow Wilson Award, Princeton University, for “Distinguished Achievement in the Nation's Service”
- Honorary Doctors Degrees: University of Illinois (1981); Tel Aviv University (2001), Weizmann Institute of Science (2001)
- 1980 Leo Szilard Award for Physics in the Public Interest, presented by the American Physical Society
- 1972 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Memorial Award for research in Theoretical Physics (Atomic Energy Commission)
- 1984-1989 Prize Fellowship of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
