About Gerald W. Johnson
Lived 1917 – 2005 (aged 87). Gerald W. Johnson was an American nuclear physicist.
Gerald Woodrow Johnson (September 16, 1917 – April 7, 2005) was born in Spangle, Spokane County, Washington. He attended Washington State University where he got his master's degree; earned a PhD in 1947 from the University of California, Berkeley. in the 1950s he oversaw nuclear testing in Nevada and in the Pacific. He became director of Project Plowshare, researching the uses of peaceful nuclear explosions. In the late '70s he was a representative to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II and to the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty negotiations.
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American nuclear expert
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Gerald W. Johnson was born on 16 September 1917 in Spangle.
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Gerald W. Johnson died on 7 April 2005.
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Gerald W. Johnson was a nuclear physicist.
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