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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.

 

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