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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 (BA and PhD), 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 220,420 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Robert R. Wilson is the 675th most popular physicist (down from 646th in 2019), the 8,002nd most popular biography from United States (down from 7,942nd in 2019) and the 141st most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Robert R. Wilson ranks 675 out of 717Before him are Egon Orowan, Pief Panofsky, Joseph Polchinski, Bernard Lovell, Vladimir Veksler, and Robert L. Forward. After him are Gerald Guralnik, Ernst Stueckelberg, Abraham Pais, Sulamith Goldhaber, Clyde Cowan, and Frank Benford.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Robert R. Wilson ranks 295Before him are Sven Jacobsson, Mary Carlisle, Wendell Corey, Billy Eckstine, František Čapek, and Mustafa Mansour. After him are Rolf Holmberg, Robert Alda, Sven Fahlman, Oktay Rıfat Horozcu, Hideko Maehata, and Bruce M. Metzger. Among people deceased in 2000, Robert R. Wilson ranks 246Before him are Matija Ljubek, Georgiy Gongadze, Raymundo Rodríguez, Nils Täpp, Kazimierz Brandys, and Enric Miralles. After him are Abraham Pais, Petter Hugsted, Tatyana Petrenko-Samusenko, Alfredo Sánchez, Edward Battell, and Mark R. Hughes.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert R. Wilson ranks 8,002 out of 18,182Before him are Gerry Goffin (1939), Adriano Directo Emperado (1926), John Lipsky (1947), Ina Claire (1893), Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (1973), and George Russell (1923). After him are Aimee Garcia (1978), Dana Carvey (1955), Joan Van Ark (1943), Gerald Guralnik (1936), Ed Begley Jr. (1949), and Rudy Rucker (1946).

Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Robert R. Wilson ranks 141Before him are Edward Condon (1902), Leona Woods (1919), Lisa Randall (1962), Ash Carter (1954), Joseph Polchinski (1954), and Robert L. Forward (1932). After him are Gerald Guralnik (1936), Clyde Cowan (1919), Frank Benford (1883), Leonard Mlodinow (1954), Charles H. Bennett (1943), and John Clauser (1942).