on digital telephone switches and co-invented the Belle chess computer. Condon was a Quaker, and a self-described "liberal." Condon died on March 26, 1974, twenty-four days after his 72nd birthday, in Boulder Colorado Community Hospital. He was cremated and his ashes were scattered. Wife Emma died just over 7 months later. Legacy The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) gives an annual award named for Condon. The Condon Award recognizes distinguished achievements in written exposition in science and technology at NIST. The award was initiated in 1974. The crater Condon on the Moon is named in his honor. In his "Biographical Memoir", Philip Morse seeks to sum up Condon's impact with a quote from fellow Physicist Lewis Branscomb which includes: "Watergate came as no surprise to Edward Condon, nor did its aftermath. I imagine he would like to have lived to see the outcome of the impeachment inquiry. But Condon understood and paid his share of the price of liberty. Somehow his idealism, his sense of humor and his inexhaustible energy made his relentless quest for a better world look like optimism." Works Atomic Structure with Halis Odabaşı (1980) See also Ronald Wilfred Gurney Quantum tunnelling McCarthyism Anti-communism Notes References Works cited External links Edward U. Condon Papers @ American Philosophical Society Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Resources: Annotated Bibliography for Edward Condon Oral history interview transcript with Edward Condon on 17 October 1967, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives – Session I Oral history interview transcript with Edward Condon on 27 April 1968, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives – Session II Oral history interview transcript with Edward Condon on 11 September 1973, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives – Session III Oregon State University: Key Participants: Edward Condon – Linus Pauling and the International Peace Movement: A Documentary History'' Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Feb 1955, statements of Condon, Corning Glass, and the Atomic Scientists of Chicago, concerning Condon's resignation from Corning National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir 1902 births 1974 deaths American nuclear physicists Manhattan Project people People from Alamogordo, New Mexico UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni Princeton University faculty Washington University in St. Louis faculty Washington University physicists University of Colorado faculty University of Colorado Boulder faculty NIST Directors Victims of McCarthyism Fellows of the American Physical Society Members of the United States