27 May 1954

United States
  • A three-member Personnel Security Board of the US Atomic Energy Commission revoked Robert Oppenheimer's security clearance due to their doubts on Oppenheimer's loyalty to the US. The board was consisted of President of the University of North Carolina Gordon Gray (voted for revocation), industrialist Thomas Alfred Morgan (voted for revocation), and Chairman of the chemistry department of Northwestern University Ward Evans (voted against revocation). ww2dbase [Robert Oppenheimer | CPC]

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