Community of Scholars Profile

Wheeler, John Archibald

Information in this profile has been submitted by the individual or is based on Institute records, including the publication A Community of Scholars: The Institute for Advanced Study 1930-1980.

Data from Institute records

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Visits to IAS

TypeAffiliationStart DateEnd Date
[M]Math(NS)1/1/19376/30/1937

Year of Death: 2008

Field of Study while at IAS: Physics

Past and Other Appointments

AppointmentOrganizationStart YearEnd Year
US Reactor Safeguard Committee 1946-1953
Sci Adv of US Senate Delegation to 3rd Annual Conf of NATO parliamentarians, Paris 1957
Adv Committee of Oak Ridge Natl Lab 1957-65

Degrees

DegreeYearInstitution
Ph.D.1933Johns Hopkins Univ

Honors

DescriptionYear
National Medal of Science1971
Franklin Medal Franklin Inst1969
Enrico Fermi award US AEC1968
Einstein prize of the Strauss Foundation1965
A. Cressy Morrison prize NY Acad of Sci1947