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Richard Lawrence Garwin (born April 19, 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio^[1]), is an American physicist. Events 1012 - Martyrdom of Alphege in Greenwich London. 1529 - At the Second Diet of Speyer Year 1928 ( MCMXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Cleveland is a City in the US state of Ohio and the County seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A physicist is a Scientist who studies or practices Physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning He received his bachelor's degree from Case Western Reserve University in 1947 and obtained his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1949 (where he worked in the lab of Enrico Fermi). A bachelor's degree is usually an Undergraduate Academic degree awarded for a course or major that generally lasts for three four or in some cases and Case Western Reserve University is a private research university located in Cleveland Ohio, United States, with some residence halls on the south end of campus The University of Chicago is a Private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. Garwin is IBM Fellow Emeritus at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. An IBM Fellow is an appointed position at IBM made by IBM’s CEO. Emeritus (ɨˈmɛrɨtəs is an Adjective that is used in the title of a retired Professor, Bishop or other professional Thomas J Watson Research Center is the headquarters for the IBM Research Division Garwin received the National Medal of Science, the nation's highest honor for the fields of science and engineering, in 2003. Richard Garwin is author of the actual design used in the first hydrogen bomb (code-named Mike). The Teller–Ulam design is a Nuclear weapon design which is used in Megaton -range Thermonuclear weapons and is more colloquially referred to as "the Ivy Mike was the codename given to the first US test of a fusion device where a major part of the explosive yield came from fusion ^[2]

Dr. Garwin is a member of the Board of Sponsors of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is a nontechnical magazine that covers global security and public policy issues especially related to the dangers posed by nuclear ^[3] He also served on the Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States in 1998. The Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States, also called the Rumsfeld Commission, was an independent commission formed by the US Congress He is also a member of the JASON Defense Advisory Group. JASON is an independent group of scientists which advises the United States Government on matters of science and technology

References

^ William J. Broad. William J Broad is an author and a senior writer at The New York Times. "Physicist and Rebel Is Bruised, Not Beaten", The New York Times, October 8, 1999.
^ Earl Lane. "Physicist Richard Garwin: A Life In Labs And The Halls Of Power", American Association for the Advancement of Science, January 17, 2006. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (or AAAS) is an organization that promotes cooperation between Scientists defends scientific freedom encourages
^ Board of Sponsors. The Bulletin Online. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is a nontechnical magazine that covers global security and public policy issues especially related to the dangers posed by nuclear Retrieved on 2007-02-05. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1576 - Henry of Navarre converts to Roman Catholicism in order to ensure his right to the throne of France.

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