- Organizer
- American Physical Society
- Why it counts
- Awarded annually by the American Physical Society (APS) for outstanding accomplishments by physicists in promoting the use of physics for the benefit of society (originally the Leo Szilard Award), first presented 1974
- Held
- annual, recipients announced by the APS in October of the preceding year, lecture at an APS meeting in spring; year = award year
Reigning winners
Szilard Award recipient · 2023
| Year | Szilard Award recipient |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Laura Grego |
| 2021 | Steve Fetter |
| 2020 | France A. Córdova |
| 2019 | Zia Mian |
| 2018 | Edwin Lyman |
| 2017 | James P. Timbie |
| 2016 | Joel Primack |
| 2015 | Ashok Gadgil |