Robert R. Wilson
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 25 years ago |
| Date of birth | March 4,1914 |
| Zodiac sign | Pisces |
| Born | Frontier |
| Wyoming | |
| United States | |
| Date of died | January 16,2000 |
| Died | Ithaca |
| New York | |
| United States | |
| Nationality | American |
| Thesis | Theory of the Cyclotron (1940) |
| Awards | National Medal of Science for Physical Science |
| Andrew Gemant Award | |
| Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada | |
| Enrico Fermi Award | |
| Thesi | Theory of the Cyclotron |
| Academic advisor | Ernest Lawrence |
| Books | The Isotron |
| Time for Fission | |
| Accelerators: machines of nuclear physics | |
| Education | University of California, Berkeley |
| Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | |
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| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 674065 |
Robert R. Wilson Life story
Robert Rathbun Wilson was an American physicist known for his work on the Manhattan Project during World War II, as a sculptor, and as an architect of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, where he was the first director from 1967 to 1978.