Richard Garwin

American physicist (1928-2025) · United States · On the map · Scientists · Died at 97

Richard Lawrence Garwin was an American physicist and government advisor, best known as the author of the first hydrogen bomb design.

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2025Died13 May 20252016Presidential Medal of FreedomAward2002Grand Prize of the French Academy of ScienceAwardNational Medal of ScienceAward1996Enrico Fermi AwardAward1988AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and ResponsibilityAward1976Leo Szilard Lectureship AwardAward1928Born19 April 1928

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