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Robert R. Wilson

1914 - 2000

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Robert Rathbun Wilson (March 4, 1914 – January 16, 2000) was an American physicist known for his work on the Manhattan Project during World War II, as a sculptor, and as an architect of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), where he was the first director from 1967 to 1978. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Wilson received his doctorate under the supervision of Ernest Lawrence for his work on the development of the cyclotron at the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory. He subsequently went to Princeton University to work with Henry DeWolf Smyth on electromagnetic separation of the isotopes of uranium. In 1943, Wilson and many of his colleagues joined the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory, where Wilson became the head of its Cyclotron Group (R-1), and later its Research (R) Division. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert R. Wilson is the 630th most popular physicist (up from 685th in 2019), the 6,736th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,395th in 2019) and the 131st most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Robert R. Wilson ranks 630 out of 851. Before him are Carl August von Steinheil, Harriet Brooks, Max Wien, Walther Müller, Georg Hermann Quincke, and Ole Jacob Broch. After him are Georges-Louis Le Sage, Balthasar van der Pol, Yvette Cauchois, Abraham Pais, James Hansen, and Gordon Gould.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Robert R. Wilson ranks 267. Before him are Orhan Kemal, Yrjö Nikkanen, Jeff Corey, Adolf Urban, Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, and Kaisa Parviainen. After him are Jaap Bakema, Nikolay Makarov, Henri Laborit, Leabua Jonathan, Fumio Hayasaka, and William Castle. Among people deceased in 2000, Robert R. Wilson ranks 208. Before him are FM-2030, John Hejduk, Jacqueline Auriol, Antony Padiyara, Anatoli Firsov, and H. C. Artmann. After him are Jack Nitzsche, Svyatoslav Fyodorov, Enric Valor i Vives, Henri Hérouin, Olena Apanovych, and Abraham Pais.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert R. Wilson ranks 6,738 out of 20,380. Before him are Stephen Gyllenhaal (1949), Irvin McDowell (1818), Mark Waters (1964), John Piper (1946), Jean Shiley (1911), and William Lloyd Garrison (1805). After him are Zoë Kravitz (1988), Nas (1973), Robert Hays (1947), Little Walter (1930), Akebono Tarō (1969), and Kurt Fuller (1953).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Robert R. Wilson ranks 131. Before him are Evelyn Fox Keller (1936), Henry Augustus Rowland (1848), Robert Mills (1927), Bryce DeWitt (1923), Victor J. Stenger (1935), and Charles Kittel (1916). After him are James Hansen (1941), Gordon Gould (1920), Lee Smolin (1955), Harold Brown (1927), Sidney Coleman (1937), and Marcia Neugebauer (1932).

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