Oersted Medal

Medalists

• William Suddards Franklin – 1936
• Edwin Herbert Hall – 1937
• Alexander Wilmer Duff – 1938
• Benjamin Harrison Brown – 1939
• Robert Andrews Millikan – 1940
• Henry Crew – 1941
• not awarded in 1942
• George Walter Stewart – 1943
• Roland Roy Tileston – 1944
• Homer Levi Dodge – 1945
• Ray Lee Edwards – 1946
• Duane Roller – 1947
• William Harley Barber – 1948
• Arnold Sommerfeld – 1949
• Orrin H. Smith – 1950
• John Wesley Hornbeck – 1951
• Ansel A. Knowlton – 1952
• Richard M. Sutton – 1953
• Clifford N. Wall – 1954
• Vernet E. Eaton – 1955
• George E. Uhlenbeck – 1956
• Mark W. Zemansky – 1957
• Jay William Buchta – 1958
• Paul Kirkpatrick – 1959
• Robert W. Pohl – 1960
• Jerrold R. Zacharias – 1961
• Francis W. Sears – 1962
• Francis L. Friedman – 1963
• Walter Christian Michels – 1964
• Philip Morrison – 1965
• Leonard I. Schiff – 1966
• Edward M. Purcell – 1967
• Harvey E. White – 1968
• Eric M. Rogers – 1969
• Edwin C. Kemble – 1970
• Uri Haber-Schaim – 1971
• Richard P. Feynman – 1972
• Arnold Arons – 1973
• Melba N. Phillips – 1974
• Robert Resnick – 1975
• Victor F. Weisskopf – 1976
• H. Richard Crane – 1977
• Wallace A. Hilton – 1978
• Charles Kittel – 1979
• Paul E. Klopsteg – 1979, Extraordinary Oersted Medal Award
• Gerald Holton – 1980
• Robert Karplus – 1981
• I. I. Rabi – 1982
• John A. Wheeler – 1983
• Frank Oppenheimer – 1984
• Sam Treiman – 1985
• Stanley S. Ballard – 1986
• Clifford E. Swartz – 1987
• Norman F. Ramsey – 1988
• Anthony P. French – 1989
• Carl E. Sagan – 1990
• Freeman Dyson – 1991
• Eugen Merzbacher – 1992
• Hans A. Bethe – 1993
• E. Leonard Jossem – 1994
• Robert Beck Clark – 1995
• Donald F. Holcomb – 1996
• Daniel Kleppner – 1997
• Edwin F. Taylor – 1998
• David L. Goodstein – 1999
• John G. King – 2000
• Lillian C. McDermott – 2001
• David Hestenes – 2002
• Edward W. Kolb – 2003
• Lawrence Krauss – 2004
• Eugene D. Commins – 2005
• Kenneth W. Ford – 2006
• Carl Wieman – 2007
• Mildred S. Dresselhaus – 2008
• George Smoot – 2009
• Not Awarded – 2010
• F. James Rutherford – 2011
• Charles H. Holbrow – 2012
• Edward F. Redish – 2013
• Dean Zollman – 2014
• Karl C. Mamola – 2015
• John Winston Belcher – 2016
• Jan Tobochnik - 2017
• Barbara L. Whitten - 2018
• Gay Stewart - 2019