de Hevesy Award Recipients

Overview

George Charles de Hevesy Nuclear Pioneer Awardees

The George Charles de Hevesy Nuclear Medicine Pioneer Award is given each year to an individual for outstanding contributions to the field of nuclear medicine. De Hevesy received the 1943 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work in determining the absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination of radioactive compounds in the human body. His work led to the foundation of nuclear medicine as a tool for diagnosis and therapy, and he is considered to be one of the fathers of nuclear medicine. SNMMI has given the de Hevesy Award every year since 1960 to honor groundbreaking discoveries and inventions in the field of nuclear medicine.

Past Recipients

• 2025 - Wynn A. Volkert, PhD
• 2024 - Carolyn Anderson, PhD, FSNMMI
• 2023 - Nizar A. Mullani, BS
• 2022 - Markus Schwaiger, MD
• 2021 - Thomas J. Ruth, PhD
• 2020 - Stephen L. Bacharach, PhD
• 2019 - Marcelo F. Di Carli, MD
• 2018 - Richard H. Wahl, MD
• 2017 - Joanna S. Fowler, PhD
• 2016 - Ross McDougall, MB, ChB, PhD
• 2015 - Michael E. Phelps, MD
• 2014 - N. David Charkes, MD
• 2013 - S. Ted Treves, MD
• 2012 - Daniel S. Berman, MD
• 2011 - Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, PhD
• 2010 - Bengt R. Langstrom, PhD
• 2009 - Alun G. Jones, Ph.D., Michael J. Abrams, Ph.D. and Alan Davison, PhD
• 2008 - Peter J. Ell, MD, Ph.D.
• 2007 - R. Edward Coleman, MD
• 2006 - Walter Wolf, Ph.D.
• 2005 - Steven M. Larson, M.D.
• 2004 - Abass Alavi, M.D.
• 2003 - Barry A. Siegel, M.D.
• 2002 - H. William Strauss, M.D.
• 2001 - Gerd Muehllehner, Ph.D.
• 2000 - Mathew L. Thakur, Ph.D.
• 1999 - S. James Adelstein, M.D., Ph.D.
• 1998 - Nagara Tamaki, M.D. and Heinrich R. Schelbert, M.D., Ph.D.
• 1997 - William C. Eckelman, Ph.D.
• 1996 - Thomas F. Budinger, M.D., Ph.D.
• 1995 - Frederick J. Bonte, M.D., Paul V. Harper, M.D.,
  Tyra T. Hutchens, M.D., Ralph M. Kniseley, M.D.,
  David E. Kuhl, M.D., Richard E. Peterson, M.D.,
  Joseph F. Ross, M.D., W. Newlon Tauxe, M.D.
  Henry N. Wagner, M.D., Merril Bender, M.D.*,
  Richard King, M.D.*, Joseph Kriss, M.D.*
  * Deceased

• 1994 - Paul Harper, M.D.
• 1993 - C. Craig Harris, M.S.
• 1992 - Michael J. Welch, Ph.D.
• 1991 - Alfred P. Wolf, Ph.D.
• 1990 - Niels A. Lassen, M.D.
• 1989 - John G. McAfee, M.D.
• 1988 - Louis Sokoloff, M.D., and Seymour S. Kety, M.D.
• 1987 - Eugene L. Saenger, M.D.
• 1986 - Solomon A. Berson, M.D. and William G. Myers, M.D., Ph.D.
• 1985 - Michel M. Ter-Pergossian, Ph.D.
• 1984 - Henry N. Wagner, Jr., M.D.
• 1982 - William H. Beierwaltes, M.D.
• 1981 - William G. Myers, Ph.D., M.D.
• 1980 - Merrill Bender, M.D. and Monte Blau, Ph.D.
• 1979 - Georg Charles de Hevesy, Ph.D.
• 1978 - Benedict Cassen, Ph.D.
• 1977 - Those who took part in the “Chicago Pile” experience (1942)
• 1976 - David E. Kuhl, M.D.
• 1975 - George V. Taplin, M.D.
• 1974 - Hal O. Anger William
• 1973 - Lise Meitner, Ph.D.
• 1972 - Frederick & Irene Joiliot Curie
• 1971 - Glenn T. Seaborg, Ph.D.
• 1970 - John J. Lawrence, M.D.
• 1969 - Herrman Blumgart, M.D.
• 1968 - Pioneers of the 1930’s
• 1967 - Gilbert N. Lewis, Ph.D.
• 1966 - Otto Hahn, Ph.D.
• 1965 - Geoacchino Failla, Ph.D.
• 1964 - Lord Rutherford of Nelson
• 1963 - Enrico Fermi, Ph.D.
• 1962 - Joseph Hamilton & Bertram Low-Beer
• 1960 - Ernest O. Lawrence