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The Fermi Award

JUN 01, 1963
J. Robert Oppenheimer

The Atomic Energy Commission announced in April that, based on the unanimous recommendation of the Commission’s General Advisory Committee, J. Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Institute for Advanced Study, has been named to receive the Commission’s Enrico Fermi Award for 1963. The presentation ceremony is to take place in December.

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Volume 16, Number 6

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