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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

GREGORY BREIT

Title: Professor of Physics
Affiliation:   Yale University
    New Haven, ConnecticutUSA
Gender:   Male
Year Deceased:   1981
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Award Discipline:   Physical Sciences
Award Year:   1967
Citation:   "For pioneering contributions to the theoretical understanding of nuclear structure and particle dynamics, for highly significant work in atomic and ionospheric physics, and for the inspiration he has given to several generations of American physicists."
    Presented by President Johnson at a White House ceremony on February 13, 1968.

 

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