The Atomic Energy Commission's Ernest Orlando Lawrence Memorial Award for 1962 was presented on April 23 to five scientists. Those cited were Andrew A. Benson (Laboratory of Nuclear Medicine and Radiation Biology, University of California at Los Angeles) “for outstanding contributions to elucidation of the carbon reduction cycle in photosynthesis through his development of double labeling techniques employing and ”; Richard P. Feynman (California Institute of Technology) “for important contributions to quantum field theory and particle physics, for invention of Feynman diagrams, and for broad scientific interests and knowledge”; Herbert Goldstein (Columbia University) “for significant contributions to reactor physics and to nuclear cross sections, and for leadership in establishing a rational scientific basis for nuclear shield design”; Anthony L. Turkevich (University of Chicago) “for contributions to radiochemistry in activation analysis, to analysis of intranuclear cascades, and to utilization of radiochemical techniques throughout atomic energy”; and Herbert F. York (University of California at San Diego) “for important contributions to our knowledge of elementary particles, and especially for leadership in applying atomic energy to the national defense”.
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Lawrence Memorial Award. Physics Today 1 August 1962; 15 (8): 74. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3058347
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