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Oersted Medal

award conferred by the American Association of Physics Teachers

Memorial Pages

27 memorial pages

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Kenneth Ford

05/01/1926 – 12/05/2025

99 years

United States

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George F. Smoot

02/20/1945 – 09/18/2025

80 years

American astrophysicist and cosmologist

7th arrondissement of Paris

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David Goodstein

04/05/1939 – 04/10/2024

85 years

United States

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Lillian C. McDermott

01/01/1931 – 07/08/2020

89 years

United States

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Freeman Dyson

12/15/1923 – 02/28/2020

96 years

theoretical physicist and mathematician

Princeton

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Charles Kittel

07/18/1916 – 05/15/2019

102 years

American physicist

Berkeley

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Mildred Dresselhaus

11/11/1930 – 02/20/2017

86 years

American physicist

Mount Auburn Hospital

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Anthony French

11/19/1920 – 02/03/2017

96 years

Cambridge

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Eugene Commins

07/01/1932 – 09/26/2015

83 years

California

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John King

01/01/1925 – 06/15/2014

89 years

Wellfleet

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Norman Foster Ramsey

08/27/1915 – 11/04/2011

96 years

American physicist

Wayland

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John Archibald Wheeler

07/09/1911 – 04/13/2008

96 years

American physicist

Hightstown

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Philip Morrison

11/07/1915 – 04/22/2005

89 years

American astrophysicist

Cambridge

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Hans Bethe

07/02/1906 – 03/06/2005

98 years

German-American nuclear physicist

Ithaca

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Sam Treiman

05/27/1925 – 11/30/1999

74 years

New York City

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Edward Mills Purcell

08/30/1912 – 03/07/1997

84 years

Cambridge

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Carl Sagan

11/09/1934 – 12/20/1996

62 years

American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author

Seattle

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Paul H. Kirkpatrick

07/21/1894 – 12/26/1992

98 years

Stanford

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Robert Karplus

02/23/1927 – 03/22/1990

63 years

Moraga

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George Eugene Uhlenbeck

12/06/1900 – 10/31/1988

87 years

Boulder

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Richard Feynman

05/11/1918 – 02/15/1988

69 years

Los Angeles

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Isidor Isaac Rabi

07/29/1898 – 01/11/1988

89 years

Manhattan

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Mark Zemansky

05/05/1900 – 12/29/1981

81 years

Teaneck

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Robert Wichard Pohl

08/10/1884 – 06/05/1976

91 years

Göttingen

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