Nationality United States Fields Nuclear physics | Role Physicist Name Herbert York | |
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Born 24 November 1921Rochester, New York, USA ( 1921-11-24 ) Institutions University of California Radiation LaboratoryManhattan ProjectLawrence Livermore National LaboratoryUniversity of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California, San DiegoAdvanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)Defense Department Research and Engineering (DDR&E) Alma mater University of Rochester (B.S., M.S.) (1943)University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D) (1949) Notable awards E. O. Lawrence Award (1962)Enrico Fermi Award (2000)Vannevar Bush Award (2000)Clark Kerr Medal (2000) Died May 19, 2009, San Diego, California, United States Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada, Enrico Fermi Award Books advisors, A Shield in Space?: Technolo, Arms and the physicist, Race to Oblivion: A Participa, Making Weapons - Talking P | ||
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Herbert york memorial the founding chancellor of ucsd
Herbert Frank York (24 November 1921 – 19 May 2009) was a part-Mohawk American nuclear physicist. He held numerous research and administrative positions at various United States government and educational institutes.
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Herbert york easy solutions to one problem tend to make others worse 1984
Biography
York was born in Rochester, New York where he received his B.S. and M.S. from the University of Rochester in 1943, and went on to obtain his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1949. During World War II he was a physicist at the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory and at Oak Ridge, Tennessee as part of the Manhattan Project. He was the first director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 1952 to 1958. After leaving the laboratory in 1958, he held numerous positions in both government and academia, including the first Chief Scientist of the Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the first Director of Defense Research and Engineering.
York was a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the founding Chancellor of the University of California San Diego (1961–1964, 1970–1972). He later served as U.S. ambassador to the Comprehensive Test Ban negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland (1979–1981).
York was Director Emeritus of the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation at UC San Diego and served as chairman of the university's Scientific and Academic Advisory Committee, which oversees activities at both Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratories. He also served on the board of the Council for a Livable World, a nonpartisan arms control organization in Washington, D.C. York occasionally guest lectured for UC San Diego and other institutions.
Herbert York died 19 May 2009 in San Diego at age 87.