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H-Bomb Creator Richard Garwin was a Giant in Science, Technology, and Policy

Richard Garwin, who died on May 13, 2025, at the age of 97, was sometimes called “the most influential scientist you’ve never heard of.” He got his Ph.D. in physics at 21 under Enrico Fermi – a Nobel Prize winner and friend of Einstein’s – who called Garwin “the only true genius” he’d ever met.

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Bunn, Matthew. “H-Bomb Creator Richard Garwin was a Giant in Science, Technology, and Policy.” The Conversation, May 16, 2025

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