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Dates
March 4, 1914 – January 16, 2000
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Wilson, Robert R., 1914-2000
Additional Forms of Names
Wilson, Robert R., 1914-
Wilson, Robert R. (Robert Rathbun), 1914-
Wilson, Robert Rathbun
Wilson received A.B. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1936. Studied with Prof. Ernest O. Lawrence there and received the Ph.D. in 1940. Known for expertise in designing and constructing cyclotrons and synchrotrons, serving as a consultant on projects around the world. He was also highly regarded as a lecturer and teacher of physics and historian of world affairs relating to the developing uses of atomic energy.
March 4, 1914Birth, Frontier (Wyo.).
1936Received A.B., University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley (Calif.).
1940Received Ph.D. in Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley (Calif.).
1940 – 1946Instructor (1940-1941); Assistant Professor of Physics (1941-1946); and Head, Isotron Development Project (1942-1943), Princeton University, Princeton (N.J.).
1943 – 1946Physicist (1943-1946); Leader, Cyclotron Group (1943-1944); and Leader, Experimental Nuclear Physics Division (1944-46), Los Alamos Laboratory, the Manhattan Project.
1946First Chairman, Federation of American Scientists.
1946 – 1947Associate Professor of Physics, Harvard University.
1947 – 1967Professor of Physics and Director, Laboratory of Nuclear Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca (N.Y.).
1948 – 1951Member, Committee on Atomic Casualties, National Research Council (NRC).
1954 – 1955Exchange Professor, University of Paris.
1957Member, National Academy of Sciences.
1967 – 1978Director, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia (Ill.).
1967 – 1980Ritzma Professor, Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago (Ill.).
1973Awarded National Medal of Science.
1980 – 1982Michael Pupin Professor of Physics, Columbia University.
1980 – 2000Emeritus Professor of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca (N.Y.).
1984Awarded Enrico Fermi Award, U.S. Department of Energy.
1985President, American Physical Society (APS).
1986 – 1989Chair, Board of Trustees, Aspen Center for Physics.
1995Awarded Andrew Gemant Award, American Institute of Physics (AIP).
January 16, 2000Death, Ithaca (N.Y.).
Nuclear physicist.
Accelerators -- Design and construction.
Cyclotrons -- Design and construction.
Wilson, Daniel
Son.
Wilson, Jane
Wife, married in 1940.
Wilson, Jonathan
Son.
Wilson, Rand
Son.
Lawrence, Ernest Orlando, 1901-1958
PhD advisor at University of California, Berkeley, "Theory of the cyclotron."
Littauer, Raphael, 1925-
Co-wrote "Accelerators: Machines of Nuclear Physics."
Co-wrote an article.
Both employed at University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi Institute.
Both employed at University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi Institute.
Both employed at Cornell University.
Bacher, Robert F. (Robert Fox), 1905-2004
Both employed at Cornell University and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Bainbridge, Kenneth T. (Kenneth Tompkins), 1904-1996
Both employed at Harvard University and Los Alamos National Laboratory, Manhattan Project.
Both employed at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
Bargmann, V. (Valentine), 1908-1989
Both employed at Princeton University.
Barschall, H. H. (Henry Herman), 1915-1997
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Cornell University.
Bethe, Hans A. (Hans Albrecht), 1906-2005
Both employed at Cornell University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Harvard University.
Both employed on Project Trinity, the Manhattan Project.
Bridgman, P. W. (Percy Williams), 1882-1961
Both employed at Harvard University.
Both employed at Columbia University.
Conant, James Bryant, 1893-1978
Both employed at Harvard University.
Both employed at Cornell University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Columbia University.
Dicke, Robert H. (Robert Henry)
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Cornell University.
Both employed at Cornell University.
Both employed at Cornell University.
Both employed at Cornell University.
Eisenhart, Luther Pfahler, 1876-1965
Both employed at Princeton University.
Feigenbaum, Mitchell, 1944-2019
Both employed at Cornell University.
Both employed at Columbia University.
Both employed at Los Alamos Laboratory, the Manhattan Project.
Feynman, Richard P. (Richard Phillips), 1918-1988
Both employed at Princeton University and Cornell University.
Fisher, Michael E. (Michael Ellis)
Both employed at Cornell University.
Fletcher, James Chipman, 1919-1991
Both employed at Princeton University.
Foley, Henry Michael, 1917-1982
Both employed at Columbia University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Froman, Darol K. (Darol Kenneth), 1906-1997
Both employed at Los Alamos Laboratory, the Manhattan Project.
Both employed at California Institute of Technology.
Both employed at Cornell University.
Both employed at Columbia University.
Hempelmann, L. H.
Both employed on Project Trinity, the Manhattan Project.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Hubbard, Jack
Both employed on Project Trinity, the Manhattan Project.
Both employed at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
Both employed at Columbia University.
Kemble, Edwin C. (Edwin Crawford), 1889-
Both employed at Harvard University.
Kerst, Donald William, 1911-1993
Both employed at Los Alamos Laboratory, the Manhattan Project.
Both employed at Cornell University.
Kistiakowsky, George B. (George Bogdan), 1900-1982
Both employed on Project Trinity, Manhattan Project.
Both employed at Cornell University.
Both employed at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
Both employed at Cornell University.
Both employed at Columbia University.
Both employed at Cornell University.
Both employed at Columbia University.
Both employed at Harvard University.
Mack, Julian Ellis, 1903-1966
Both employed on Project Trinity, the Manhattan Project.
Manley, John Henry, 1907-
Both employed at Los Alamos Laboratory, the Manhattan Project.
Both employed at Harvard University.
McDaniel, Boyce D. (Boyce Dawkins), 1917-
Both employed at Cornell University.
Both employed at Cornell University.
Both employed at Cornell University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Cornell University.
Both employed at Columbia University.
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967
Both employed at Los Alamos Laboratory, the Manhattan Project.
Overhauser, Albert Warner, 1925-
Both employed at Cornell University.
Parker, E. N. (Eugene Newman), 1927-
Both employed at University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi Institute.
Parsons, William Sterling, 1901-1953
Both employed at Los Alamos Laboratory, the Manhattan Project.
Both employed at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
Both employed at Cornell University.
Both employed at Harvard University.
Both employed at Harvard University.
Rabi, I. I. (Isidor Isaac), 1898-1988
Both employed at Columbia University.
Rainwater, L. James (Leo James), 1917-1986
Both employed at Columbia University.
Both employed at Cornell University.
Richardson, Robert C. (Robert Coleman), 1937-2013
Both employed at Cornell University.
Robertson, H. P. (Howard Percy), 1903-1961
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Los Alamos Laboratory, the Manhattan Project.
Both employed at Columbia University.
Sachs, Allan M. (Allan Maxwell), 1921-1989
Both employed at Columbia University.
Both employed at University of Chicago.
Both employed at Harvard University.
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Los Alamos Laboratory, the Manhattan Project.
Both employed at Columbia University.
Sessler, A. M. (Andrew Marienhoff)
Both employed at Cornell University.
Shenstone, A. G. (Allen Goodrich)
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at University of Chicago.
Smyth, Henry De Wolf, 1898-1986
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at Harvard University.
Both employed at Cornell University.
Both employed at Cornell University.
Both employed at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
Both employed at University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi Institute.
Van Vleck, J. H. (John Hasbrouck), 1899-1980
Both employed at Harvard University.
Waldman, Bernard, 1913-1986
Both employed on Project Trinity, the Manhattan Project.
Both employed at Columbia University.
Weisskopf, Victor Frederick, 1908-2002
Both employed at Los Alamos Laboratory, the Manhattan Project.
Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008
Both employed at Princeton University.
Wigner, Eugene Paul, 1902-1995
Both employed at Princeton University.
Both employed at University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi Institute.
Williams, John H. (John Harry), 1908-
Both employed at Los Alamos Laboratory and on Project Trinity, Manhattan Project.
Wilson, Kenneth G. (Kenneth Geddes), 1936-2013
Both employed at Cornell University.
Both employed at University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi Institute.
Wu, C. S. (Chien-shiung), 1912-1997
Both employed at Princeton University and Columbia University.
Aebersold, Paul C. (Paul Clarence), 1910-1967
Allison, Samuel King, 1900-1965
Alpher, Ralph, 1921-2007
Amaldi, Edoardo
Baldin, A. M. (Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich)
Cassels, J. M.
Colgate, Stirling
Cooksey, Donald
Cornog, Robert A.
Darrow, Karl K. (Karl Kelchner), 1891-
DeWire, John William
Feld, Bernard Taub, 1919-
Gibbs, R. C. (Roswell Clifton), 1878-
Golden, William T., 1909-2007
Goldwasser, Edwin L.
Goudsmit, Samuel A. (Samuel Abraham), 1902-1978
Harnwell, G. P. (Gaylord Probasco), 1903-1982
Havens, William W. (William Westerfield), 1920-2004
Hawkins, David, 1913-2002
Haworth, Leland J. (Leland John), 1904-
Herman, Robert, 1914-
Higinbotham, William A.
Holton, Gerald James
Inglis, David Rittenhouse, 1905-1995
Jentschke, Willibald
Klema, Ernest D.
Kolstad, George Andrew, 1919-1996
Laslett, L. Jackson (Lawrence Jackson), 1913-
Levinger, Joseph S., 1921-
Livingston, M. Stanley (Milton Stanley)
Loeb, Leonard B. (Leonard Benedict), 1891-
Lofgren, Edward J., 1908-
Marshak, Robert E. (Robert Eugene), 1916-1992
McCrea, William Hunter
McMillan, Edwin M. (Edwin Mattison), 1907-
McMillen, James Howard
Moon, Philip Burton
Oppenheimer, Frank, 1912-1985
Orear, Jay
Palevsky, Mary, 1949-
Panofsky, Wolfgang K. H. (Wolfgang Kurt Hermann), 1919-2007
Parratt, Lyman G. (Lyman George)
Peierls, Rudolf E. (Rudolf Ernst), 1907-1995
Perrin, Francis
Perry, Roland, 1906-
Roberts, A. (Arthur), 1912-
Ruark, Arthur Edward, 1899-
Sagan, Carl, 1934-1996
Salpeter, Edwin E.
Schmidt, Maarten, 1929-
Schopper, Herwig F.
Shapley, Alan H.
Siegbahn, Kai, 1918-2007
Silverman, Albert
Tate, John T. (John Torrence), 1889-1950
Thompson, Emily Ann
Toll, John S.
Toohig, Timothy E. (Timothy Edward)
Walker, R. L. (Robert Lee), 1919-2005
Weinberg, Alvin Martin, 1915-2006
White, Harry J. (Harry James), 1905-
White, Milton Grandison, 1910-1979
Woodward, William Mooney
Zhang, Wenyu, 1910-
Zichichi, Antonino
Columbia University. Department of Physics
Michael Pupin Professor of Physics.
Cornell University. Department of Physics
Professor of Physics; Director, Laboratory of Nuclear Studies; and Emeritus Professor of Physics.
Enrico Fermi Institute
Ritzma Professor.
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
First Director.
Harvard University. Department of Physics
Associate Professor of Physics.
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
Physicist; Leader, Cyclotron Group; and Leader, Experimental Nuclear Physics Division, Manhattan Project.
Manhattan Project (U.S.)
Physicist; Leader, Cyclotron Group; and Leader, Experimental Nuclear Physics Division, Los Alamos Laboratory.
Princeton University. Department of Physics
Instructor; Assistant Professor of Physics; and Head, Isotron Development Project.
Université de Paris
Exchange Professor.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Philosophical Society
President.
Aspen Center for Physics
Chair, Board of Trustees.
Federation of American Scientists
First Chairman.
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
National Research Council (U.S.)
Member, Committee on Atomic Casualties.
University of California, Berkeley. Department of Physics
Received A.B. and Ph.D. in 1940.
An evening with Hans Bethe: the German atomic bomb project [videorecording] / produced at Cornell University, Dept. of Physics by Eric L. Gasieiger ; director, Mike E. Allmendinger.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Joint ceremonial session of the American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers [sound recording], 1968 January 30.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Keynote address and awards ceremony [sound recording]
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Robert Wilson, 1977 May 19.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Robert Wilson, 1978 May 8 through 1981 January 23.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Remembering Hans Bethe [video recording], 2005.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Remembering Hans Bethe [videorecording]: conversations with Hans Bethe.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Robert R. Wilson papers, 1936-2000.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Robert R. Wilson records, 1936-[ongoing].
Milton G. White History of Accelerators Room (WH-3SE) and Archives (WH-16NE)
Fermilab
PO Box 500, Batavia, IL 90510, USA
Aleksandr Baldin papers.
In the office of A. M. Baldin at the Laboratory of Elementary Particle Physics.
Dubna, Russia
American Physical Society Directed Energy Weapons (DEW) study records, 1983-1988.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Boyce D. McDaniel papers, 1980-2002.
Carl A. Kroch Library. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University
2B Carl A Kroch Library, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Ernest Donald Klema response to 1981 History of Nuclear Physics Survey, circa 1983.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Even E. O. Lawrence would be surprised [sound recording] / 1994.
Carl A. Kroch Library. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University
2B Carl A Kroch Library, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Hans Bethe papers, circa 1931-1992.
Carl A. Kroch Library. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University
2B Carl A Kroch Library, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
International Science and Technology Journal interviews, 1962-1967.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
LBL Office of the Director records of Edwin M. McMillan [microfilm], 1907-1991.
Archives and Records Office
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
One Cyclotron Road, Bldg. 69-107, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
LBL Office of the Director records of Edwin M. McMillan, 1907-1991.
Pacific Sierra Region
National Archives and Records Administration
1000 Commodore Drive, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA
Leon Lederman retirement symposium [videorecording].
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Manhattan Project videohistory collection [videorecording], 1987-1990.
Archives
Smithsonian Institution
Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507, 600 Maryland Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20024-2520, USA
Oral history interview with Edwin Ernest Salpeter, 1978 March 30.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Frank Oppenheimer, 1973 February 9 and May 21.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Kenneth Bainbridge, 1977 March 16 and 23.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Leon Lederman, 2002 August 12.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Maarten Schmidt, 1996 April 11 and May 2, 15.
Institute Archives
California Institute of Technology
1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Oral history interview with Mel Shochet, 1995 October 17.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Philip Morrison, 1967 February 7.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral History interview with Robert F. Bacher, 1986 February 13.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Robert Marshak, 1970 June 15, 16, September 19, and October 4.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Robert Serber, 1967 February 10.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Robert Serber, 1996 November 26.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Oral history interview with Roland Perry, 1981 March 13.
Harold B. Lee Library. Special Collections Division.
Brigham Young University.
P.O. Box 26835, Provo, UT 84602-6835, USA
Oral history interview with William Hunter McCrea, 1978 September 22.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Selected talks from Corporate Associates Meetings [videorecording] : 1983-1987.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Wilson to direct proposed 200 BEV Accelerator Lab, 1967.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American Institute of Physics
One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Accelerators: machines of nuclear physics, by Robert R. Wilson and Raphael Littauer.
Atomic fragments : a daughter's questions / Mary Palevsky.
Robert Rathbun Wilson Physics Today obituary.
Scientific temperaments : three lives in contemporary science / Philip J. Hilts.