From respiratory complications following a brief illness
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Philip Abelson
Philip Hauge Abelson was an American physicist, scientific editor and science writer. Trained as a nuclear physicist, he co-discovered the element neptunium, worked on isotope separation in the Manhattan Project, and wrote the first study of nuclear marine propulsion for submarines. He later worked on a broad range of scientific topics and related public policy, including organic geochemistry, pal…
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science · American physicist and scientific editor (1913–2004) · physicist · chemist · nuclear physicist · writer · molecular biologist · geochemist · publisher · researcher · geophysicist · also Philip Abelson, Philip Hauge Abelson, Philip H. Abelson, Abelson
Born 27 April 1913 · Died 1 August 2004 · Q377815
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2004· 2 entries
Died 2004-08-01.
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1992· 2 entries
Won NAS Public Welfare Medal (1992).
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Was awarded the Public Welfare Medal, the National Academy of Sciences's highest honor
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1988· 1 entry
Awarded Waldo E. Smith Award (1988).
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1987· 2 entries
Won National Medal of Science (1987).
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The National Science Foundation's Distinguished Achievement Award, the American Medical Association's Scientific Achievement Award, the Navy Distinguished Civilian Service Award and the Waldo E
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1978· 1 entry
And was subsequently popularised by Carl Sagan
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1977· 1 entry
Abelson believed in a CO2-climate link
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1972· 1 entry
Awarded Kalinga Prize (1972).
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1962· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (1962).
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1949· 1 entry
And the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1958
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1946· 1 entry
Returned to work at the Carnegie Institution, which published his report "Atomic Energy Submarine," in March of that year
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1913· 2 entries
In Tacoma, Washington, to Norwegian immigrant parents
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Born 1913-04-27.
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