The Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics is an annual prize awarded by the American Physical Society's Division of Nuclear Physics. Established in 1964, and currently consisting of $10,000 and a certificate, the Bonner Prize was founded in memory of physicist Tom W. Bonner. The aim of the prize, as stated by the American Physical Society is: The Bonner Prize is generally awarded for individual achievement in experimental research, but can be awarded for exceptional theoretical work and to groups who have contributed to a single accomplishment.

Recipients

• 2023 Jen-Chieh Peng • 2022 David W. Hertzog • 2021 Geoffrey L. Greene • 2020 Richard Milner • 2019 Barbara Jacak • 2018 Bradley Marc Sherrill • 2017 Charles F. Perdrisat • 2016 I-yang Lee • 2015 Howard Wieman and Miklos Gyulassy • 2014 William A. Zajc • 2013 Michael K. Moe • 2012 Witold Nazarewicz • 2011 Richard F. Casten • 2010 Steven C. Pieper and Robert B. Wiringa • 2009 Robert D. McKeown • 2008 Arthur M. Poskanzer • 2007 Stuart J. Freedman • 2006 Ian Towner and John Hardy • 2005 Roy Holt • 2004 George F. Bertsch • 2003 Arthur Bruce McDonald • 2002 J. David Bowman • 2001 Richard Geller and Claude Lyneis • 2000 Raymond G. Arnold • 1999 Vijay Raghunath Pandharipande • 1998 Joel M. Moss • 1997 Hamish Robertson • 1996 John Dirk Walecka • 1995 Felix Boehm • 1994 Ernest K. Warburton • 1993 Akito Arima and Francesco Iachello • 1992 Henry G. Blosser and Robert E. Pollock • 1991 Peter J. Twin • 1990 Vernon Hughes • 1989 Ernest M. Henley • 1988 Raymond Davis Jr. • 1987 Bernard Frois and Ingo Sick • 1986 Lowell M. Bollinger • 1985 Eric G. Adelberger • 1984 Harald A. Enge • 1983 Charles D. Goodman • 1982 Gerald E. Brown • 1981 Bernard L. Cohen • 1980 Frank S. Stephens and Richard M. Diamond • 1979 Roy Middleton and Willy Haeberli • 1978 Sergei Polikanov and V. M. Strutinsky • 1977 Stuart T. Butler and G. Raymond Satchler • 1976 John P. Schiffer • 1975 Chien-Shiung Wu • 1974 Denys Wilkinson • 1973 Herman Feshbach • 1972 John D. Anderson and Donald Robson • 1971 Maurice Goldhaber • 1970 William A. Fowler • 1969 Gregory Breit • 1968 Raymond G. Herb • 1967 Charles Christian Lauritsen • 1966 Robert J. Van de Graaff • 1965 Henry H. Barschall