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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.
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 architecture...
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. (Credit: Fermilab.)
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. The former director of the Cornell Laboratory of Nuclear Studies and of the Enrico Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) was 85.
In this interview, Wilson reflects on his time working with Oppie, including his personality, political views, and Oppenheimer’s unwillingness to engage him on the moral implications of building the bomb. He discusses Oppenheimer’s controversial security hearing and recalls how it affected Oppenheimer.
On April 17, 1969, Robert R. Wilson testified in front of Congress' Joint Committee on Atomic Energy as part of the AEC Authorizing Legislation for FY 1970. Included here is his famed quote about the value of building Fermilab's first accelerator.
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.
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