William Nierenberg
American physicist (1919-2000) · United States · On the map · Scientists · Died at 81
William Aaron Nierenberg was an American physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and was director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1965 through 1986. He was a co-founder of the George C. Marshall Institute in 1984.
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2000Died10 September 20001979Richtmyer Memorial Lecture AwardAward1977William Procter Prize for Scientific AchievementAward1939Putnam FellowAward1919Born13 February 1919
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Lived 1919 to 2000 · aged 81
