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Kenneth G. Wilson
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Nobel prize winning US physicist
Kenneth G. Wilson was a US physicist who won the Nobel Prize for his work in theoretical physics. His research contributed significantly to our understanding of how physical systems behave at different scales, which has applications across multiple areas of science.
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physics1982
“for his theory for critical phenomena in connection with phase transitions”
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Kenneth
- Family name
- Wilson
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Waltham
- Place of death
- Saco
- Father
- Edgar Bright Wilson
- Occupation
- physicist
- Educated at
- George School
- Employer
- Ohio State University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Quakers
- Notable work
- critical phenomena
- Doctoral advisor
- Murray Gell-Mann
- Student of
- Murray Gell-Mann
- Field of work
- theoretical physics
- Image
- Kenneth G. Wilson.121.png
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- date of birth
- 1936-06-08
- date of death
- 2013-06-15
- member of
- American Philosophical Society
- Erdős number
- 6
- name in native language
- Kenneth Geddes Wilson
- student
- Michael Peskin
- cause of death
- lymphoma
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- writing language
- English language
- manner of death
- natural causes
- interested in
- theoretical physics
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Encyclopedic overview
Kenneth Geddes "Ken" Wilson (June 8, 1936 – June 15, 2013) was an American theoretical physicist and a pioneer in using computers for studying particle physics. He was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on phase transitions—illuminating the subtle essence of phenomena like melting ice and emerging magnetism. It was embodied in his fundamental work on the renormalization group.
Life
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