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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.
Oct 20, 2017 · Robert R. Wilson (Fig. 1) was the first scientist to propose particle therapy—the use of particle beams for the treatment of cancer, which has since been used worldwide, primarily in developed countries.
Jan 16, 2000 · Robert Rathbun Wilson, the experimental physicist who designed some of the world's most powerful particle accelerators used to study the fundamental nature of matter, died Jan. 16 at home in Ithaca.
Jan 18, 2000 · Dr. Robert R. Wilson, a physicist who built the world's most powerful particle smashers in a setting that he insisted be surrounded by restored prairies and enriched by striking...
Robert R. Wilson was an American physicist. He studied at the University of California, Berkeley, where he first met Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer recruited Wilson and his entire group at Princeton to work on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos on the cyclotron.
Robert Rathbun Wilson (1914-2000) was an American physicist who also worked as a sculptor and architect. Wilson was recruited by J. Robert Oppenheimer to be the head of the cyclotron group at Los Alamos, making him the youngest group leader at the laboratory.
Jan 17, 2000 · BATAVIA, IL-Robert Rathbun Wilson, a Wyoming cowboy who built the world’s highest-energy particle accelerator laboratory with the eye of an artist, the shrewdness of a banker and the conscience of a human rights activist, died late Sunday night at a retirement home in Ithaca, New York, near Cornell University. He was 85.
Robert Rathbun Wilson has been a central figure in accelerator design and development since the birth of the cyclotron in 1932. High-energy particle accelerators are the essential tool of physicists for the discovery and investigation of the properties of elementary particles the fundamental building blocks of matter.
The Robert R. Wilson Collection contains the written and audio-visual records of the personal history (1914-2000) and professional history (1967-1978) of Fermilab's first director. Wilson's western roots and Berkeley training prepared him for his frontier work on the Manhattan Project and pioneering developments at Cornell University's Newman ...
Bob Wilson was one of the leading architects of the golden age of high energy particle accelerators, starting with his early cyclotron work with E.O. Lawrence at Berkeley, where he received his PhD in 1940, and culminating in his leadership of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory with the world's highest energy accelerator.
