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DOE accepting nominations for E.O. Lawrence Award

The Department of Energy is accepting nominations for its E.O. Lawrence Award. The deadline to submit a nomination is June 30.

Recipients of the award receive a citation signed by the DOE secretary, a gold medal and a $50,000 honorarium. An award is given in the fields of chemistry, environmental science and technology, life sciences (including medicine), materials research, national security, nuclear technology and physics.

The E.O. Lawrence Award honors U.S. scientists and engineers who have made exceptional and relatively recent achievements in the development, use or control of energy; broadly defined to include the science and technology of nuclear, atomic, molecular, and particle interactions and effects; and environmental conservation and efficiency.

Since the award was created in the early 1960s, 25 Laboratory technical staff members have been named E.O. Lawrence Award recipients. The award is named after physicist Ernest Orlando Lawrence. The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California is named after Lawrence.

More information, including nomination procedures can be found at http://www.science.doe.gov/sc-5/lawrence/index.htm online.

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