Awards 

FAS Public Service Award:
Since 1971, the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) has recognized an outstanding statesman or public interest advocate who has made a distinctive contribution to public policy at the intersection of science and national security.  Past recipients include Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Richard Garwin, Carl Sagan, and Phillip Morrison.

  • 1971 Richard L. Garwin
  • 1972 Matthew S. Meselson
  • 1973 Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky
  • 1975 Bernard T. Feld
  • 1976 Hans A. Bethe
  • 1977 Bruce N Ames
  • 1978 William A. Shurcliff
  • 1979 John P. Holdren
  • 1980 Jerome B. Weisner
  • 1981 Philip Morrison
  • 1982 Randall Forsberg
  • 1983 Edward M. Kennedy
  • 1984 Ruth Adams
  • 1985 Carl Sagan
  • 1986 Charles B. Archambeau
    Jack F. Evernden
    Lynn R. Sykes

     
  • 1987 Thomas B. Cochran
  • 1988 Hugh E. Dewitt
  • 1989 Frank von Hippel
  • 1990 John H. Gibbons
  • 1991 John E. Pike
  • 1992 Herbert F. York
  • 1993 George Soros
  • 1994 Jeremy J. Stone
  • 1995 Lester R. Brown
  • 1996 Sally Lillienthal
  • 1997 Richard L. Garwin
  • 1998 Morton H. Halperin
  • 2007 Edward J. Markey
  • 2008 Mark Levine




FAS Hans A. Bethe Award:
In 2003, the FAS inaugurated the Hans A. Bethe Award. Bethe helped found FAS with the belief that scientists had an obligation to participate in the difficult choices that were forced on our country by the extraordinary advances in nuclear physics so vividly demonstrated by the development and use of atomic weapons. In the sixty years since the founding of the organization, the range and complexity of issues hinging on sound scientific advice has increased.

2003 Philip Morrison
… for his unfailing ethical compass to America’s most critical decisions.  
 
2005 Steve Fetter
… in recognition of his outstanding contributions as an advocate for arms control and nonproliferation, and for his insightful and rigorous analyses of nuclear energy climate change and of carbon-free energy supply.  
 
2007 Matt Bunn
… in recognition of his work to understand and promote the global control of dangerous nuclear materials and to stop the spread of nuclear weapons.

2008 Raymond Jeanloz
... for his demonstration of the reliability of the U.S. nuclear stockpile in the presence of a moratorium on nuclear testing.