Physics professor George Smoot awarded Albert Einstein Medal
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 Albert Einstein Medal winner George Smoot, signing in at the lectern prior to his talk |
BERKELEY - On June 4, 2003, UC Berkeley Physics Department Professor George Smoot was awarded the Albert Einstein Medal for 2003. The Einstein Medal was presented by the president of the Albert Einstein Society, Professor Peter Fricker, at the University of Berne in Switzerland, to honor Smoot's pioneering work on cosmic microwave background.
The Albert Einstein Society organizes an annual Einstein Medal public ceremony in Berne to honor a person for outstanding scientific achievements and cultural merit. In accepting the award, Smoot, who also is a researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, presented two talks: "Relativisitic Cosmology" (audio is 55 minutes) and another titled, "The new cosmology and the cosmic microwave background radiation."
Listed below are previous recipients of the Einstein Medal:
1979 Professor Dr. Stephen Hawking, GB
1981 Professor Dr. R.H. Dicke, USA
1982 Professor Dr. T. Wahlen, Minister, CH
1983 Professor Sir H. Bondi, GB
1984 Professor Dr. F. Weisskopf, USA
1985 Professor Dr. E. Witten, USA
1986 Professor Dr. R.L. Mossbauer, Germany
1987 Professor Dr. J. Hersch, CH
1988 Professor J.A. Wheeler, USA
1989 Professor Dr. M. Fierz, CH
1990 Professor Dr. R. Penrose, Oxford
1991 Professor J.H. Taylor, USA
1992 Professor P. Bergmann, USA
1993 Dr. M. Fluckiger, Dr. A Meichle, CH
1994 Professor Dr. I. Shapiro, USA
1995 Professor Dr. C.N. Yang, USA/China
1996 Professor Dr. Th. Damour, France
1998 Professor Dr. C. Nicollier, CH
1999 Professor Dr. F.E. Peter Hizebruch, Germany
2000 Professor Dr. G.A. Tammann
2001 Professor Dr. J. Geiss and Prof. Dr. H. Reeves