biography
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Wilson, Kenneth (Geddes)
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| lived:
| (1936– )
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| biography:
| Theoretical physicist, born in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA. He studied at Harvard and the California Institute of Technology, taught at Cornell University (1963–88), and moved to Ohio State University in 1988. He developed techniques to accommodate the wild fluctuations inherent in so-called critical phenomena, for example the loss of the spontaneous magnetization of iron upon heating. His methods have also found wide application in particle physics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1982. |
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