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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert R. Wilson has received more than 236,561 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Robert R. Wilson is the 684th most popular physicist (down from 675th in 2019), the 7,395th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,987th in 2019) and the 145th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Robert R. Wilson ranks 684 out of 851. Before him are Edith Clarke, Paul Scherrer, John Polkinghorne, Jan Burgers, Thibault Damour, and Isaak Kikoin. After him are John Iliopoulos, Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert, Inga Fischer-Hjalmars, Gregory Breit, Leona Woods, and Kazuhiko Nishijima.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Robert R. Wilson ranks 298. Before him are Edgar Reinhardt, Astrid Henning-Jensen, Élie Bayol, Aharon Katzir, Julio Caro Baroja, and Harold Russell. After him are Juanita Moore, Mustafa Mansour, William Castle, Oscar Casanovas, George Bruns, and Joe Mercer. Among people deceased in 2000, Robert R. Wilson ranks 233. Before him are Adelaida Avagyan, Tofig Guliyev, Egon Jönsson, Nat Adderley, István Gulyás, and Stanislav Stratiev. After him are Enric Valor i Vives, Ji Pengfei, Alan Hovhaness, Charles F. Hockett, Göran Tunström, and Jean Dotto.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert R. Wilson ranks 7,395 out of 20,380. Before him are Nicholas Gonzalez (1976), DeAndre Yedlin (1993), Oliver Nelson (1932), Jack Weston (1924), Rick Yune (1971), and Loretta Devine (1949). After him are Missi Pyle (1972), Sally Mann (1951), Billy Hart (1940), Melina Kanakaredes (1967), Earl Holliman (1928), and Robert Strauss (1913).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Robert R. Wilson ranks 145. Before him are Lee Smolin (1955), Charles H. Bennett (1943), Ash Carter (1954), John C. Slater (1900), Frederick Seitz (1911), and Edith Clarke (1883). After him are Leona Woods (1919), Leonard Mlodinow (1954), Alvin M. Weinberg (1915), Elda Emma Anderson (1899), Stuart Hameroff (1947), and Marcia Neugebauer (1932).

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