Kenneth G. Wilson (1936-2013)

Awarded the Prize “for his theory for critical phenomena in connection with phase transitions.”

American physicist. Wilson was born in Waltham, Massachusetts on June 8, 1936. In 1956 he graduated from Harvard University took his Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology. At Cornell he became an Associate Professor in 1965 Full Professor in 1971 the James A. Weeks Professor in 1974. In 1988, he moved to The Ohio State University where he became the Hazel C. Youngberg Trustees Distinguished Professor. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts Sciences the American Philosophical Society. Wilson died on June 15, 2013 in Saco, Maine.