Title:

Professor of Physics Emeritus

Affiliation:

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley,California 94720 USA

Gender:

Male

Year Deceased:

1991

Award Discipline:

Physical Sciences

Award Year:

1990

Citation:

"For his scientific achievements including the identification of the first transuranic element (neptunium) and the invention of the phase stability principle incorporated in the synchrotron."

Presented by President Bush at a White House East Room Ceremony on November 13, 1990.

Nobel Laureate:

Chemistry, 1951