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Robert R. Wilson

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Gender Male
Death24 years ago
Date of birth March 4,1914
Zodiac sign Pisces
Born Frontier
Wyoming
United States
Date of died January 16,2000
DiedIthaca
New York
United States
NationalityAmerican
ThesisTheory 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
ThesiTheory of the Cyclotron
Academic advisor Ernest Lawrence
BooksThe 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.
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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.

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