 1914 - 2000 (85 years)
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| Name |
Robert Rathbun Wilson |
| Birth |
4 Mar 1914 |
Frontier, Lincoln, Wyoming  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Occupation |
Physicist. He worked on the Manhattan project during WWII. In he came to Illinois. He became director of Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois. The largest most ambitious partial accelerator of the time was built under his supervision. |
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Robert R. Wilson Firmilab.
Wilson (right) in 1971, at the main controls of the Firmilab accelerator. |
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Robert Wilson - President Nixon.
On October 10, 1973 President Richard Nixon presented the National Medal of Science to Robert R. Wilson. |
| Death |
16 Jan 2000 |
Ithaca, Tompkins, New York |
| Burial |
Pioneer Cemetery, Batavia Junction, DuPage, Illinois, United States |
| Person ID |
I67572 |
Nagel |
| Last Modified |
3 Oct 2025 |
| Father |
Platt Evin Wilson, b. 31 Dec 1883, Albia, Monroe, Iowa d. 12 Nov 1963, Kemmerer, Lincoln, Wyoming (Age 79 years) |
| Relationship |
Birth |
| Mother |
Edith Elizabeth Rathbun, b. 3 Jul 1892, Fontenelle, Lincoln, Wyoming d. 4 Mar 1980, Berkeley, Alameda, California (Age 87 years) |
| Relationship |
Birth |
| Marriage |
1911 |
| Family ID |
F21374 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Jane Inez Scheyer, b. 12 Jun 1916, San Francisco, San Francisco, California d. 14 Feb 2006, Ithaca, Tompkins, New York (Age 89 years) |
| Family ID |
F21377 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
29 Sep 2025 |
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 | Death - 16 Jan 2000 - Ithaca, Tompkins, New York |
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Robert Rathbun Wilson |
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Robert - Jane Wilson |
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Robert R Wilson, physicist. H worked on the"Manhattan Project". He oversaw the construction of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) and he was the director when it went into operation. My 11th cousin. |
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