At a ceremony held in the White House on December 3, President Kennedy presented the 1962 Enrico Fermi Award to Edward Teller of the University of California for “contributions to chemical and nuclear physics, for his leadership in thermonuclear research, and for efforts to strengthen national security”. The award, which consists of a citation, a gold medal, and a check for $50 000, was established under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 and was first presented to Enrico Fermi (in whose honor it was posthumously named). It has since been given to John von Neumann, Ernest O. Lawrence, Eugene Wigner, Glenn T. Seaborg, and Hans A. Bethe.

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Nuclear physics, Transition metals, Energy policy, Awards and Prizes, Physicists
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