The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details
Robert Rathbun Wilson
Title:
Director
Affiliation:
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Weston,Illinois USA
Gender:
Male
Year Deceased:
2000
Award Discipline:
Physical Sciences
Award Year:
1973
Citation:
"For unusual ingenuity in designing experiments to explore the fundamental particles of matter and in designing and constructing the machines to produce the particles, culminating in the world's most powerful particle accelerator."
Presented by President Nixon at a White House Ceremony on October 10, 1973.