The J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize and Medal was awarded by the Center for Theoretical Studies, University of Miami, from 1969, until 1984. Established in memory of US physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the award consisted of a medal, certificate and a $1000 honorarium. It was awarded for "outstanding contributions to the theoretical natural sciences [...] during the preceding decade". The acceptance speech for the inaugural award to Dirac was published as The Development of Quantum Theory (1971).

Recipients

1969 – Paul Dirac

1970 – Freeman Dyson

1971 – Abdus Salam

1972 – Robert Serber

1973 – Steven Weinberg

1974 – Edwin Ernest Salpeter

1975 – Nicholas Kemmer

1976 – Yoichiro Nambu

1977 – Feza Gursey and Sheldon Glashow

1978 – Jocelyn Bell Burnell

1979 – Abraham Pais

1980 – Richard H. Dalitz

1981 – Frederick Reines

1982 – Maurice Goldhaber and Robert E. Marshak

1983 – Victor F. Weisskopf

1984 – John Archibald Wheeler

See also

List of physics awards

References

Sources

Awards established in 1969

Physics awards

J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize