Kurt Gödel

== Awards and honours ==
Gödel was awarded (with [[Julian Schwinger]]) the first [[Albert Einstein Award]] in 1951, and was also awarded the [[National Medal of Science]], in 1974.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nsf.gov/od/nms/recip_details.jsp?recip_id=138|title=The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details {{!}} NSF – National Science Foundation|website=www.nsf.gov|access-date=2016-09-17}}</ref> Gödel was elected a resident member of the [[American Philosophical Society]] in 1961 and a [[List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1968|Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1968]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Kurt+G%C3%B6del&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|access-date=2021-01-28|website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref><ref name=frs/> He was a Plenary Speaker of the [[International Congress of Mathematicians|ICM]] in 1950 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.<ref>{{cite book|author=Gödel, Kurt|chapter=Rotating universes in general relativity theory|title=''In:'' Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 30–September 6, 1950|volume=1|pages=175–81|year=1950|chapter-url=http://www.mathunion.org/ICM/ICM1950.1/Main/icm1950.1.0175.0181.ocr.pdf|access-date=December 4, 2017|archive-date=December 28, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131228052147/http://www.mathunion.org/ICM/ICM1950.1/Main/icm1950.1.0175.0181.ocr.pdf}}</ref>