Richard Garwin
Richard Garwin | |
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Case Institute of Technology (B.S.) University of Chicago (Ph.D.) | |
Awards | Presidential Medal of Freedom National Medal of Science Grande Médaille de l'Académie des Sciences Vannevar Bush Award |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | University of Chicago Columbia University Cornell University Harvard University |
Thesis | An experimental investigation of the beta-gamma angular correlation in beta decay (1949) |
Doctoral advisor | Enrico Fermi |
Doctoral students | Myriam Sarachik |
Richard Lawrence Garwin (born April 19, 1928) is an American
In 1978, Garwin was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributing to the application of the latest scientific discoveries to innovative practical engineering applications contributing to national security and economic growth.
Education
Garwin received his
Career
After graduating from the University of Chicago, Garwin joined the physics faculty there and spent summers as a consultant to Los Alamos National Laboratory working on nuclear weapons. Garwin was the author of the actual design used in the first
In December 1952, he joined IBM's Watson laboratory, where he worked continuously until his retirement in 1993. He is currently
Garwin served on the U.S. President's Science Advisory Committee from 1962–65 and 1969–72, under Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon.
From 1993 to August 2001, he chaired the Arms Control and Nonproliferation Advisory Board of the
In 2017, science journalist Joel N. Shurkin published a biography of Garwin, True Genius: The Life and Work of Richard Garwin, in which Shurkin writes about "the most influential scientist you never heard of."[12]
Honors
Garwin received the
See also
- Accelerator-driven subcritical reactor
- Energy amplifier
- Laura Garwin, science journalist and trumpeter, Garwin's daughter
- Megawatts and Megatons
References
- ^ a b William J. Broad (November 16, 1999). "Physicist and Rebel Is Bruised, Not Beaten". The New York Times.
- ^ a b Earl Lane (January 17, 2006). "Physicist Richard Garwin: A Life In Labs And The Halls Of Power". American Association for the Advancement of Science. Archived from the original on April 17, 2008. Retrieved June 14, 2006.
- ^ Teller, Edward. Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Perseus Publishing, 2001), p. 327.
- ^ National Reconnaissance Office. Founders of National Reconnaissance (PDF). GPO.
- ^ a b IBM. "Richard L. Garwin receives the National Medal of Science". IBM News Release. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
- ^ Federation of American Scientists. "The Garwin Archive".
- ^ Brennan, Jean Ford, The IBM Watson Laboratory at Columbia University: A History, IBM, Armonk, New York, February 18, 1971. Cf. pp.31-43. "By the end of 1952, Richard L. Garwin, a former pupil of Professor Enrico Fermi, had come to the Lab from the University of Chicago where he had been an assistant professor of nuclear physics."
- ^ a b National Science Foundation. "Medal of Science 50 Videos -- Richard Garwin". Retrieved March 20, 2016.
- ^ "U.S. Strategic Nuclear Policy, An Oral History (Part 2)". YouTube. Sandia National Labs. 2018. Archived from the original on December 14, 2021. Retrieved July 30, 2019.
- doi:10.2307/2538499.
- ^ National Institute of Medicine. "DIRECTORY: IOM MEMBER- RICHARD L. GARWIN, PH.D."
- ^ Frazier, Kendrick (2017). "New and Notable". Skeptical Inquirer. 41 (3): 61.
- ^ National Science Foundation, "Richard L. Garwin", The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details.
- ^ "Richard L. Garwin". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved June 27, 2022.
- ^ "Dick Lawrence Garwin". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved June 27, 2022.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved June 27, 2022.
- National Archives.
- American Academy of Achievement.
External links
- Annotated Bibliography for Richard Garwin from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues Archived March 2, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- Dr. Richard Garwin's personal website
- The Garwin Archive at the Federation of American Scientists
- "Garwin: Documentary about scientist Richard Garwin". Archived from the original on January 18, 2019.
- The Problem-Solver: A Portrait Of Physicist Richard Garwin - Science Friday, 28 April 2017 (Ira Flatow interview with Joel Shurkin)
Oral histories
- Oral history interview transcript with Richard Garwin on 23 October 1986, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives - Session I
- Oral history interview transcript with Richard Garwin on 4 February 1987, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives - Session II
- Oral history interview transcript with Richard Garwin on 8 June 1987, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives - Session III
- Oral history interview transcript with Richard Garwin on 24 June 1991, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives
- Oral history interview transcript with Richard Garwin on 7 June 2001, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives
- Oral history interview transcript with Richard Garwin and Sidney Drell on 10 May 2006, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives
- Oral history interview transcript with Richard Garwin on 20 December 2012, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives
- Oral history interview transcript with Richard Garwin on April 14, 2020, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives
- Oral history interview transcript with Lois Garwin on 1 July 2004, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives