| 6th | Top Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1931: 1931 U.S. and Canadian Fellows |
| Henry DeWolf Smyth | |
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 Henry DeWolf Smyth (1898-1986)
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| Born | May
1, 1898 |
| Died |
September 11, 1986 |
| Institutions | Princeton University |
| Alma mater | Princeton
University Cambridge University |
| Academic advisors | Karl Taylor
Compton Ernest Rutherford |
| Doctoral students | Kenneth Bainbridge |
| Known for | Smyth Report |
| Notable awards | Atoms for Peace Award (1968) |
Henry DeWolf Smyth (May 1, 1898 – September 11,
1986) was an American physicist, diplomat, and a bureaucrat who played a number of key roles
in the early development of nuclear energy. He is most famous for
authoring the Smyth
Report, the first official US history of the Manhattan
Project which developed the first nuclear weapons,
for being a commissioner on the U.S. Atomic Energy
Commission from 1949 to 1954, and for being the US
representative to the International Atomic
Energy Agency from 1961 to 1970. He was the chairman of the
Department of Physics at Princeton University from 1935
until 1949. He was the lone dissenter among the AEC commissioners
during the security hearing of his friend J.
Robert Oppenheimer, and was also the recipient of the Atoms
for Peace Award in 1968.
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   | American Philosophical Society background note - Henry DeWolf Smyth Papers, American Philosophical Society |
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