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George D. Watkins was an American World War II veteran and a recipient of the Medal of Honor. He was born on April 28, 1924 in Chicago, Illinois. Watkins enlisted in the United States Army in 1942 and served in the European Theater of Operations. On April 7, 1945, he was serving as a private first class in Company K, 3rd Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division. On that day, he single-handedly destroyed two enemy machine gun nests and killed several enemy soldiers. For his actions, he was awarded the Medal of Honor. After the war, Watkins returned to Chicago and worked as a machinist. He was also active in veterans' organizations. He died on August 8, 2020 at the age of 96. At the time of his death, Watkins was the oldest living Medal of Honor recipient. He was also the last surviving Medal of Honor recipient from the 3rd Infantry Division.

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1978

In 1978 Watkins received the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize. In 1988 he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences. In 1999 he received the silver medal in Physics (Materials Science) of the International ESR/EPR Society.

1966

In 1966/67 he was a visiting scientist at the University of Oxford (Clarendon Laboratory) as a Fellow of the National Science Foundation and in 1983/84 at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart as U.S. Senior Scientist of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. In 1990/91 he was a visiting professor for three months each at the University of Lund, King's College London, and Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics (Fraunhofer-Institut für Angewandte Festkörperphysik — IAF) in Freiburg im Breisgau.

1949

He married in 1949 and is the father of three children.

1943

Watkins received in 1943 his bachelor's degree in physics from Randolph-Macon College and in 1947 his master's degree and in 1952 his Ph.D. from Harvard University with thesis A R. F. Spectrometer with Applications to Studies of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Absorption in Solids. From 1952 to 1975 he did research in solid state physics at the General Electric Research Laboratory in Schenectady, New York. During his time at General Electric, he was also an adjunct professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from 1962 to 1965 and at the State University of New York, Albany from 1969 to 1973. From 1975 until his retirement in 1996, he was "Sherman Fairchild Professor for Physics'" at Lehigh University.

1924

George Daniels Watkins (born 28 April 1924, Evanston, Illinois) is an American solid-state physicist.