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John Wistar Simpson
John Wistar Simpson (25 September 1914 – January 4, 2007) was an electrical engineer, who made significant contributions to the development of the nuclear energy.
Biography.
He was born in 1914 in Glenn Springs, South Carolina. He joined Westinghouse in 1937 and, earned a master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh in 1941. He was a close associate of Adm. Hyman G. Rickover, known as the father of the nuclear Navy.
Simpson took a two-year
C. Monteith
- 1963: John R. Pierce
- 1964: No Award
- 1965: Walker Lee Cisler
- 1966: Wilmer L. Barrow
- 1967: George Harold Brown
- 1968: Charles F. Avila
- 1969: Hendrik Wade Bode
- 1970: Howard H. Aiken
- 1971: John Wistar Simpson
- 1972: William Hayward Pickering
- 1973: Bernard D. H. Tellegen
- 1974: Jan A. Rajchman
- 1975: Sidney Darlington
- 1976: Murray Joslin
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