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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

George E. Uhlenbeck

Title:

Professor of Physics

Affiliation:

Rockefeller University

New York,New York  USA

Gender:

Male

Year Deceased:

2008

Award Discipline:

Physical Sciences

Award Year:

1976

Citation:

"For the major discovery, together with Samuel A. Goudsmit, of the electron spin as a source of a new quantum number."

Presented by President Carter at a White House Ceremony on November 22, 1977.

 

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