AKA Kenneth Geddes Wilson

Born: 8-Jun-1936
Birthplace: Waltham, MA

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Second-order phase transitions

Father: E. Bright Wilson Jr. (chemistry professor at Harvard)
Mother: Emily Buckingham Wilson
Wife: Alison Brown (m. 1982)

    University: Harvard University (1956)
    University: PhD, California Institute of Technology (1961)
    Professor: Assistant Professor of Physics, Cornell University (1963-)
    Professor: Physics, Cornell University (1971-88)
    Professor: Ohio State University (1988-)

    Nobel Prize for Physics 1982
    National Academy of Sciences 1975
    American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1975
    American Philosophical Society 1984

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