Robert R. Wilson
Robert Rathbun Wilson (4 Maret 1914 – 16 Januari 2000) adalah seorang fisikawan Amerika yang dikenal karena karyanya pada Proyek Manhattan saat Perang Dunia II, sebagai pengukir, dan seorang arsitek dari Laboratorium Akselerartor Nasional Fermi (Fermilab), dimana ia menjadi direktur pertama dari 1967 sampai 1978.
| Robert R. Wilson | |
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 Robert R. Wilson di acara penggemburan tanah Fermilab | |
| Lahir | 4 Maret 1914 Frontier, Wyoming, Amerika Serikat |
| Meninggal | 16 Januari 2000 (umur 85) Ithaca, New York, Amerika Serikat |
| Kebangsaan | Amerika |
| Almamater | Universitas California, Berkeley |
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| Karier ilmiah | |
| Bidang | Physics |
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| Disertasi | Theory of the Cyclotron (1940) |
| Pembimbing doktoral | Ernest Lawrence |
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Kehidupan awal
suntingRobert Rathbun Wilson lahir di Frontier, Wyoming, pada 1914,[1] sebagai putra dari pasangan Platt Elvin dan Edith Elizabeth (Rathbun) Wilson. Ia memiliki seorang kakak yang bernama Mary Jane.[2] Orangtuanya berpisah ketika ia berusia delapan tahun[3]
Catatan
sunting- ^ McDaniel, Boyce; Silverman, Albert (April 2000). "Obituary: Robert Rathbun Wilson". Physics Today. 53 (4): 82–83. Bibcode:2000PhT....53d..82M. doi:10.1063/1.883056.
- ^ "Dowling Family Genealogy". Ancestry.com. Diakses tanggal 28 Oktober 2014.
- ^ McDaniel & Silverman 2001, hlm. 4.
Referensi
sunting- Bird, Kai; Sherwin, Martin J. (2005). American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. New York, New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-375-41202-6. OCLC 56753298.
- Herken, Gregg (2002). Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller. New York: Henry Holt and Co. ISBN 978-0-8050-6588-6. OCLC 48941348.
- Hoddeson, Lillian; Henriksen, Paul W.; Meade, Roger A.; Westfall, Catherine L. (1993). Critical Assembly: A Technical History of Los Alamos During the Oppenheimer Years, 1943–1945. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-44132-3. OCLC 26764320.
- Hunner, Jon (2004). Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0-8061-3891-6. OCLC 154690200.
- McDaniel, Boyce D.; Silverman, Albert (2001). Robert Rathburn Wilson 1915–2000 (PDF). Biographical Memoirs. 80. National Academy of Sciences. hlm. 1–18. Diakses tanggal February 8, 2013.
Bacaan tambahan
sunting- Hilts, Philip J. (1982). Scientific Temperaments : Three Lives in Contemporary Science. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-671-22533-9. OCLC 8688830. Lengthy profiles of Wilson, geneticist Mark Ptashne, and computer scientist John McCarthy
- Weart, Spencer R. (2000). "From Frontiersman To Physicist: Robert Rathbun Wilson". Physics in Perspective. American Institute of Physics Center for History Of Physics. 2: 141–203. Bibcode:2000PhP.....2..141W. ISSN 1422-6944.
Pranala luar
sunting- "Robert Rathbun Wilson". Fermilab. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2019-05-23. Diakses tanggal February 15, 2014.
- "A Conversation with Emeriti Professors Hans Bethe and Robert Wilson". Cornell University. Diakses tanggal February 15, 2014. Video of a 1993 conversation with Hans Bethe and Robert Wilson discussing the atomic bomb projects.