20th-century American physicist |
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| Date of birth | 28 July 1915
Greenville |
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| Date of death | 27 January 2015
Oakland |
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| Doctoral student | - Ali Javan
- James Power Gordon
- Robert W. Boyd
- Raymond Chiao
- Helmut W. Schulz
- Robert G. Shulman
- Elsa M. Garmire
- John D. Monnier (1999)
- Robert Lee White
- Dan Martin Watson
- Ken Toshio Tatebe
- Jonathon Michael Weiner
- Everett Arthur Lipman
- Eugene Serabyn
- Arno Allan Penzias
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| Member of | - Royal Society
- National Academy of Sciences
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Pontifical Academy of Sciences
- Russian Academy of Sciences
- National Academy of Engineering
- Indian National Science Academy
- American Philosophical Society
- American Astronomical Society
- American Physical Society
- Academia Europaea (AE section Physics and engineering sciences, 1999–)
- JASON
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| Award received | - Guggenheim Fellowship (1955)
- Niels Bohr International Gold Medal (1979)
- Nobel Prize in Physics (1964)
- Frederic Ives Medal (1996)
- Stuart Ballantine Medal (1962)
- Templeton Prize (2005)
- SPIE Gold Medal (2010)
- IEEE David Sarnoff Award (1961)
- Lomonosov Gold Medal (2000)
- Petrie Prize Lecture (1985)
- IEEE Medal of Honor (1967)
- Wilhelm Exner Medal (1970)
- Henry Norris Russell Lectureship (1998)
- National Medal of Science (1982)
- Karl Schwarzschild Medal (2002)
- Rumford Prize (1961)
- National Inventors Hall of Fame (1976)
- IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award (1959)
- John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science (1961)
- Young Medal and Prize (1963)
- Mendel Medal (1999)
- Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award (1959)
- Fellow of the American Physical Society
- Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy (1977)
- Comstock Prize in Physics (1958)
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1976)
- Science Writing Award
- Karl G. Jansky Lectureship (1971)
- Remsen Award (1972)
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