Kenneth Wilson

Eatonville WA 98328

Kenneth G. Wilson, was professor of physics at Cornell University. He received his AB from Harvard College in 1956 and his PhD from Caltech in 1964. He was a junior fellow at Harvard and a Ford Foundation Fellow at the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva before going to Cornell. In the twenty years after Wilson left Caltech, he became one of the world's leading physical theorists , particularly in particle physics and condensed matter physics. He is best known for introducing into statistical mechanics a technique called the Renormalization Group, which revolutionized that discipline. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Physical Society.