The Albert Einstein Medal is an award presented by the Albert Einstein Society in Bern. First given in 1979, the award is presented to people for "scientific findings, works, or publications related to Albert Einstein" each year. Recipients Source: Einstein Society 2020: Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) scientific collaboration 2019: Clifford Martin Will 2018: Juan Martín Maldacena 2017: LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration 2016: Alexei Yuryevich Smirnov 2015: Stanley Deser and Charles Misner 2014: Tom W. B. Kibble 2013: Roy Kerr 2012: Alain Aspect 2011: Adam Riess, Saul Perlmutter 2010: Hermann Nicolai 2009: Kip Stephen Thorne 2008: Beno Eckmann 2007: Reinhard Genzel 2006: Gabriele Veneziano 2005: Murray Gell-Mann 2004: Michel Mayor 2003: George F. Smoot 2001: Johannes Geiss, Hubert Reeves 2000: Gustav Tammann 1999: Friedrich Hirzebruch 1998: Claude Nicollier 1996: Thibault Damour 1995: Chen Ning Yang 1994: Irwin Shapiro 1993: Max Flückiger, Adolf Meichle 1992: Peter Bergmann 1991: Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. 1990: Roger Penrose 1989: Markus Fierz 1988: John Archibald Wheeler 1987: Jeanne Hersch 1986: Rudolf Mössbauer 1985: Edward Witten 1984: Victor Weisskopf 1983: Hermann Bondi 1982: Friedrich Traugott Wahlen 1979: Stephen Hawking See also Albert Einstein Award, Lewis and Rosa Strauss Memorial Fund Albert Einstein World Award of Science, World Cultural Council Einstein Prize, American Physical Society List of physics awards UNESCO Albert Einstein medal, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization References Awards established in 1979 Albert Einstein Physics awards Science and technology awards