Awards & Winners

Merle Tuve

Date of Birth 27-June-1901
Place of Birth Canton
(Lincoln County, South Dakota)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Merle A. Tuve, Merle Anthony Tuve, Merle A.Tuve
Profession Geophysicist, Scientist
Merle Anthony Tuve was an American geophysicist who was the founding director of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. He was a pioneer in the use of pulsed radio waves whose discoveries opened the way to the development of radar and nuclear energy.

Awards by Merle Tuve

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1948


Comstock Prize in Physics
(For his pioneering work on the upper atmosphere and his development of the electrical pulse method of study; for his pioneering work in nuclear physics utilizing the electrostatic generator; and for his development of the proximity fuse.)