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The Wigner Medal is an award designed “to recognize outstanding contributions to the understanding of physics through Group Theory”. It is administered by the Group Theory and Fundamental Physics Foundation, a publicly supported organization.
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The Wigner Medal is unique because it is a truly international award. It is not affiliated with any state or national society. The awarded is chosen by an international selection committee whose members are elected by the Board of Trustees of the Foundation and by the Standing Committee of the International Group Theory Colloquium.
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The Wigner Medal was established in 1977/78 and was awarded for the first time at the Integrative Conference on Group Theory and Mathematical Physics (Group7, 1978) to E. P. Wigner and V. Bargmann.
- 1978 Eugene P. Wigner
- 1978 Valentin Bargmann
- 1980 Israel M. Gel’fand
- 1982 Louis Michel
- 1984 Yuval Ne’eman
- 1986 Feza Gürsey
- 1988 Isadore M. Singer
- 1990 Franchesco Iachello
- 1992 Julius Wess and Bruno Zumino
- 1996 Victor Kac and Robert V. Moody
- 1998 Marcos Moshinsky
- 2000 Lochlainn O’Raifeartaigh
- 2002 Harry J. Lipkin
- 2004 Erdal İnönü
- 2006 Susumo Okubo
- 2010 Michio Jimbo
- 2012 Chester A. Mead
- 2014 Joshua Zak
- 2016 Bertram Kostant