Richard Garwin

Richard Lawrence Garwin (born April 19, 1928) is an American physicist. He is widely known to be the author of the first hydrogen bomb design.^[1]

Garwin was born in Cleveland, Ohio.^[2] He received his bachelor's degree from the Case Institute of Technology in 1947, and two years later his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago under the supervision of Enrico Fermi.

In 2016, President Barack Obama honored Garwin with a Presidential Medal of Freedom.^[3]

References[change | change source]

↑ William J. Broad (November 16, 1999). "Physicist and Rebel Is Bruised, Not Beaten". The New York Times.
↑ 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 March 27, 2017.
↑ "President Obama Names Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom". whitehouse.gov. The White House. November 16, 2016. Retrieved November 16, 2016.

Other websites[change | change source]

Annotated Bibliography for Richard Garwin from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues Archived 2012-03-02 at the Wayback Machine
Richard Garwin's personal web site
Garwin Archive^{[permanent dead link]}
Oral History interview transcript with Richard Garwin 23 October 1986, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives Archived 19 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine
Oral History interview transcript with Richard Garwin 7 June 2001, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives Archived 26 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine
Oral History interview transcript with Richard Garwin 24 June 1991, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives Archived 2 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine
Garwin Archived 2017-02-23 at the Wayback Machine, documentary on Richard Garwin's life and work

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[NYT1999-1] William J. Broad (November 16, 1999). "Physicist and Rebel Is Bruised, Not Beaten". The New York Times.

[Earl_Lane-2] 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 March 27, 2017.

[3] "President Obama Names Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom". whitehouse.gov. The White House. November 16, 2016. Retrieved November 16, 2016.

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