Richard Garwin, Designer of the First Hydrogen Bomb, Dies at 97

Richard Garwin, Designer of the First Hydrogen Bomb, Dies at 97

Richard L. GarwinDesigner of the first hydrogen bombLife Fellow, 97; died 13 MayGarwin played a critical role in developing the world’s first hydrogen bomb in the early 1950s.For 41 years he worked as an IBM researcher in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. During that time he also served as science advisor to several U.S. presidents.After earning a bachelor’s degree in physics in 1947 from Case Western Reserve University, in Cleveland, Garwin joined the Uni…