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.