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Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award

American award in physics and science communication

Memorial Pages

22 memorial pages

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Michael Fisher

09/03/1931 – 11/26/2021

90 years

English physicist, chemist and mathematician

United Kingdom

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Steven Weinberg

05/03/1933 – 07/23/2021

88 years

American theoretical physicist

Austin

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Murray Gell-Mann

09/15/1929 – 05/24/2019

89 years

American physicist

Santa Fe

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Leon M. Lederman

07/15/1922 – 10/03/2018

96 years

American mathematician and physicist

Rexburg

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Vera Rubin

07/23/1928 – 12/25/2016

88 years

American astronomer and physicist

Princeton

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Gerald Neugebauer

09/03/1932 – 09/26/2014

82 years

Tucson

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Michael Tinkham

02/23/1928 – 11/04/2010

82 years

Portland

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James A. Van Allen

09/07/1914 – 08/09/2006

91 years

American astrophysicist

Iowa City

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Richard Smalley

06/06/1943 – 10/28/2005

62 years

American chemist

Houston

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Philip Morrison

11/07/1915 – 04/22/2005

89 years

American astrophysicist

Cambridge

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Fred Hoyle

06/24/1915 – 08/20/2001

86 years

British astronomer

Bournemouth

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Robert R. Wilson

03/04/1914 – 01/16/2000

85 years

American physicist

New York

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David Schramm

10/25/1945 – 12/19/1997

52 years

Denver

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Edward Mills Purcell

08/30/1912 – 03/07/1997

84 years

Cambridge

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William Alfred Fowler

08/09/1911 – 03/14/1995

83 years

Pasadena

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Eugene Wigner

11/17/1902 – 01/01/1995

92 years

Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician

Princeton

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Isidor Isaac Rabi

07/29/1898 – 01/11/1988

89 years

Manhattan

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Walter Houser Brattain

02/10/1902 – 10/13/1987

85 years

Seattle

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John C. Slater

12/22/1900 – 07/25/1976

75 years

Sanibel

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Gordon Ferrie Hull

10/07/1870 – 10/07/1956

86 years

United States

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Enrico Fermi

09/29/1901 – 11/28/1954

53 years

Chicago

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Thomas Gold

01/01/1631 – 01/01/1707

76 years

Austrian astrophysicist

Ithaca