List of awards and honors received by John von Neumann

John von Neumann ( ;  ; December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, engineer and polymath.

Von Neumann was twice invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians. The May 1958 issue of the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society was dedicated as a memorial volume (in an act without precedent) to von Neumann and eight articles were written about him and his work by friends and colleagues. The National Academy of Sciences published a biographical memoir by Salomon Bochner.In addition, obituaries were written in several other journals, including the Journal of the London Mathematical Society, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Matematikai Lapok, Physics Today, Science, Mathematics of Computation and The Economic Journal. Books, scientific papers, and events have been dedicated to him.

In honor of his achievements and contributions to the modern world, he was named in 1999 the Financial Times Person of the Century, as a representative of the century's characteristic ideal that the power of the mind could shape the physical world, and of the "intellectual brilliance and human savagery" that defined the 20th century. On May 4, 2005, the United States Postal Service issued the American Scientists commemorative postage stamp series, a set of four 37-cent self-adhesive stamps in several configurations designed by artist Victor Stabin. The scientists depicted were von Neumann, Barbara McClintock, Josiah Willard Gibbs, and Richard Feynman.

Other awards and honors he received include the following.

Awards:
 1926 Rockefeller Fellowship
 1937 Bôcher Memorial Prize, American Mathematical Society
 1947 Medal for Merit (Presidential Award)
 1947 Distinguished Civilian Service Award, U.S. Navy
 1955 Science Award, Air Force Association
 1956 Medal of Freedom (Presidential Award)
 1956 Albert Einstein Commemorative Award
 1956 Enrico Fermi Award, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
 1957 American Meteorological Society Award for Extraordinary Scientific Accomplishment
 1997 Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Award (Posthumous)
 1997 Hall of Fame, Space Command Headquarters, Peterson Air Force Base (Posthumous)
Honorary societies:
 Academia Nacional de Ciencias Exactas, Lima, Peru
 Academia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, Italy
 American Academy of Arts and Sciences
 American Philosophical Society
 Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere, Milan, Italy
 National Academy of Sciences
 Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences and Letters, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Honorary doctorates:
 1947 Princeton University
 1949 University of Pennsylvania
 1949 Harvard University
 1952 University of Istanbul
 1952 Case Institute of Technology
 1952 University of Maryland
 1953 Polytechnics Institut, Munich
 1954 Columbia University
Honorary positions:
 1937 American Mathematical Society Colloquium Lecturer
 1944 Gibbs Lecturer, American Mathematical Society
 1951-1953 President, American Mathematical Society
 1953 Vanuxem Lecturer, Princeton University
 1950-1957 Member, board of advisors, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia

See also
 List of things named after John von Neumann

References

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