Vice Admiral Hyman G. Rickover was today named the recipient of the Fermi Award of the Atomic Energy Commission, one of the highest scientific honors conferred by the United States Government.
The $25,000 award, which was named for its first recipient, Enrico Fermi, was given to Admiral Rickover “in recognition of his outstanding engineering and administrative leadership in development of safe and reliable nuclear power and its successful application to our national security and economic needs.”
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