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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

Jesse W. Beams

Title:

Professor of Physics

Affiliation:

University of Virginia

Charlottesville,Virginia 22903 USA

Gender:

Male

Year Deceased:

1977

Award Discipline:

Physical Sciences

Award Year:

1967

Citation:

"For sustained and ingenious contributions to the scientific development of high-speed centrifuges, a family of devices that are now widely applied in the physical and biological sciences, in medicine, and in engineering scale isotope-separation."

Presented by President Johnson at a White House ceremony on February 13, 1968.

 

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