Oersted Medal ditujukan untuk menghargai jasa-jasa pengajaran fisika. Didirikan pada 1936, penghargaan tersebut dianugerahkan oleh American Association of Physics Teachers. Penghargaan tersebut mengambil nama dari Hans Christian Ørsted. Penghargaan tersebut merupakan penghargaan paling prestisius dari Asosiasi tersebut.
Para penerima terkenalnya meliputi penerima Nobel Robert Andrews Millikan, Edward M. Purcell, Richard Feynman, Isidor I. Rabi, Norman F. Ramsey, Hans Bethe, dan Carl Wieman; serta Arnold Sommerfeld, George Uhlenbeck, Jerrold Zacharias, Philip Morrison, Melba Phillips, Victor Weisskopf, Gerald Holton, John A. Wheeler, Frank Oppenheimer, Robert Resnick, Carl Sagan, Freeman Dyson, Daniel Kleppner, dan Lawrence Krauss, dan Anthony French, David Hestenes, Robert Karplus, Robert Pohl, dan Francis Sears.
Peraih medali 2008, Mildred S. Dresselhaus, merupakan wanita ketiga yang memenangkan penghargaan tersebut selama 70 tahun lebih usia penghargaan tersebut.
Peraih medali Sunting
- William Suddards Franklin – 1936
- Edward Herbert Hall – 1937
- Alexander Wilmer Duff – 1938
- Benjamin Harrison Brown – 1939
- Robert Andrews Millikan – 1940
- Henry Crew – 1941
- tidak dianugerahi pada 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
- J. W. 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
- Tidak dianugerahi – 2010
- F. James Rutherford – 2011
- Charles H. Holbrow – 2012
- Edward F. Redish – 2013
- Dean Zollman – 2014
- Karl C. Mamola – 2015
- John Winston Belcher – 2016
Referensi Sunting
- "List of Oersted Medalists on AAPT.org". Diakses tanggal 12 February 2016.
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