Richard Garwin

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Richard Lawrence Garwin (born April 19, 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio[1]), is an American physicist. He received his bachelor's degree from Case Western Reserve University in 1947 and obtained his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1949 (where he worked in the lab of Enrico Fermi). Garwin is IBM Fellow Emeritus at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. Garwin received the National Medal of Science, the nation's highest honor for the fields of science and engineering, in 2003. Richard Garwin is author of the actual design used in the first hydrogen bomb (code-named Mike).[2]

Dr. Garwin is a member of the Board of Sponsors of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.[3] He also served on the Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States in 1998. He is also a member of the JASON Defense Advisory Group.

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  1. ^ William J. Broad. "Physicist and Rebel Is Bruised, Not Beaten", The New York Times, October 8, 1999. 
  2. ^ Earl Lane. "Physicist Richard Garwin: A Life In Labs And The Halls Of Power", American Association for the Advancement of Science, January 17, 2006. 
  3. ^ Board of Sponsors. The Bulletin Online. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Retrieved on 2007-02-05.

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