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May 01, 1898 Clinton, New York, United States Died on 11 Sep 1986 (aged 88)
American physicist and diplomat
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About Henry Dewolf Smyth
- Henry DeWolf "Harry" Smyth (; May 1, 1898 – September 11, 1986) was an American physicist, diplomat, and bureaucrat.
- He played a number of key roles in the early development of nuclear energy, as a participant in the Manhattan Project, a member of the U.S.
- Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), and U.S.
- ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Educated at Princeton University and the University of Cambridge, he was a faculty member in Princeton's Department of Physics from 1924 to 1966.
- He chaired the department from 1935 to 1949.
- His early research was on the ionization of gases, but his interests shifted toward nuclear physics beginning in the mid-1930s. During World War II he was a member of the National Defense Research Committee's Uranium Committee and a consultant on the Manhattan Project.
- He wrote the Manhattan Project's first public official history, which came to be known as the Smyth Report. On the AEC from 1949 to 1954, Smyth argued unsuccessfully against a crash course to develop the hydrogen bomb and in favor of international control of nuclear weapons.
- He was the sole member of the commission to vote against stripping J.
- Robert Oppenheimer's security clearance.
- As IAEA ambassador from 1961 to 1970 he played an important role in the realization of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. He received the Atoms for Peace Award in 1968 and the U.S.
- State Department's Distinguished Honor Award in 1970.
- The American Nuclear Society's award for "nuclear statesmanship", of which he was the first recipient, is named in his honor.
