Wilson, Robert Rathbun

Wilson, Robert Rathbun
▪ 2001

      American physicist (b. March 4, 1914, Frontier, Wyo.—d. Jan. 16, 2000, Ithaca, N.Y.), was one of the leading scientists on the Manhattan Project, working closely with Enrico Fermi on experiments that led to the development of the atomic bomb; a noted researcher in particle physics, he later served (1967–78) as the first director of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Ill., overseeing the building of the world's most powerful particle accelerator.

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