Richard Garwin

Richard Lawrence Garwin (born April 19, 1928 died May 13, 2025) is an American physicist. He is widely known to be the author of the first hydrogen bomb design.

Garwin was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He received his bachelor's degree from the Case Institute of Technology in 1947, and two years later his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago under the supervision of Enrico Fermi.

In 2016, President Barack Obama honored Garwin with a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
In 1947, Garwin married Lois Levy (died 2018), and they had three children, one of whom is musician and journalist Laura Garwin. He died at his home in Scarsdale, New York, on May13, 2025, at the age of 97.
References

Other websites

Annotated Bibliography for Richard Garwin from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues 
Richard Garwin's personal web site
Garwin Archive
Oral History interview transcript with Richard Garwin 23 October 1986, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives 
Oral History interview transcript with Richard Garwin 7 June 2001, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives 
Oral History interview transcript with Richard Garwin 24 June 1991, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives 
Garwin , documentary on Richard Garwin's life and work

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