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Physics Nobel Laureate Kenneth Wilson Dies
Physics visionary Kenneth G. Wilson, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in
Physics, died at the age of 77 on June 15 in Maine of complications
following a lymphoma.
“Ken Wilson was one of a very small number of physicists who changed the
way we all think, not just about specific phenomena, but about a vast range
of different phenomena,” said Steven Weinberg, a fellow physics Nobel
Laureate.
The Nobel Prize recognized Wilson’s ground-breaking work on phase
transitions, such as the transformation of a substance from the liquid to
the gaseous state. Wilson was led to this breakthrough from his struggles
with mysteries in elementary particle physics and quantum field theory,
topics that would appear to have no relationship to phenomena in liquids or
gases. The tools Wilson brought to bear in his research were diverse,
ranging from abstract mathematics to innovative supercomputing.
Wilson was born on June 8, 1936, in Waltham, Massachusetts, into an
atmosphere of scientific curiosity: his father was the noted Harvard chemist
E. Bright Wilson. The son’s exceptional talents became apparent as a
Harvard undergraduate by his placing in the top five in the 1954 and 1956
nation-wide Putnam Mathematical Competitions. He earned his PhD from the
California Institute of Technology in 1961, studying under Nobel Laureate
Murray Gell-Mann. Subsequently, as a Junior Fellow at Harvard, while waiting
for output from an MIT computer, he proved a mathematical conjecture
proposed by Freeman Dyson.
In 1963 Wilson joined the Cornell physics department, and was soon given
tenure even though he had hardly published. As he later said in his Nobel
autobiography, “my very strong desire to work in quantum field theory did
not seem likely to lead to quick publications; but I had already found out
that I seemed to be able to get jobs even if I didn’t publish anything so I
did not worry about publish or perish.”
Wilson’s Nobel Prize winning research stemmed from seminal work on phase
transitions by Michael Fisher and Benjamin Widom at Cornell, and Leo
Kadanoff at the University of Illinois. Their findings motivated Wilson to
ask whether his own work on quantum fields would be amenable to a similar
approach, for all of these phenomena involve huge numbers of variables
describing a wide range of length scales. In the 1970s, this inspired Wilson
to formulate a mathematical scheme called the renormalization group, for
which he received the Nobel Prize.
Following this work on phase transitions, Wilson turned again to quantum
field theory and quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the newly proposed theory of
quarks and gluons from which protons, neutrons and other hadrons are built.
He created a version of QCD on a space-time lattice that made it possible
for the first time to analyze the very strong forces that bind quarks into
hadrons. This lattice theory has in the last decade shown that QCD does give
a detailed, quantitative account of experimental data on the structure and
interactions of hadrons.
Lattice QCD was one of the major problems scientists were grappling with in
the development of supercomputers in the 1980s, making Wilson an important
pioneer in the field of supercomputing. Wilson was instrumental in the
National Science Foundation’s establishment of five national supercomputer
centers, one of them at Cornell.
Even before receiving the Nobel Prize, Wilson was widely recognized for his
scientific accomplishments. He received honors that included Israel’s Wolf
Prize in Physics in 1980 and an honorary doctorate of science from Harvard
in 1981.
In 1987 Wilson left Cornell for Ohio State University, where he helped found
the Physics Education Research Group. He also served as co-director of
Learning by Redesign, an organization exploring innovative ideas in
education. Much of his research at Ohio State until his retirement in 2008
focused on physics education and improving the teaching of science.
In 1994 Wilson published “Redesigning Education” with Bennett Davis as a
call to arms, saying that “The current crisis in education is costing us
the American Dream…We must make a quantum change in our concept of
education itself if our society and culture are to survive intact in the new
century.”
Throughout his life Wilson loved the outdoors and enjoyed strenuous physical
exertion. At Harvard he was the Ivy League one-mile champion; in his Nobel
autobiography he recalled a traverse of the high peaks in the M. Blanc
massif. He skied and hiked avidly and was an enthusiastic folk dancer. He
was averse to formality, preferring to sleep on the beach with students to
an elegant dinner with fellow lecturers.
Wilson is survived by his wife Alison A. Brown; his brother David Wilson, a
professor of molecular biology at Cornell; his sister Nina Cornell; half-
sister Anne Goldizen; half-brothers Steven and Paul Wilson; and his step-
mother Thérèse Wilson.
e********y
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一代大神

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【在 n*****b 的大作中提到】
: http://cornellcas.tumblr.com/post/53215439683/physics-nobel-lau
: Physics Nobel Laureate Kenneth Wilson Dies
: Physics visionary Kenneth G. Wilson, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in
: Physics, died at the age of 77 on June 15 in Maine of complications
: following a lymphoma.
: “Ken Wilson was one of a very small number of physicists who changed the
: way we all think, not just about specific phenomena, but about a vast range
: of different phenomena,” said Steven Weinberg, a fellow physics Nobel
: Laureate.
: The Nobel Prize recognized Wilson’s ground-breaking work on phase

C********n
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大神挂了

range

【在 n*****b 的大作中提到】
: http://cornellcas.tumblr.com/post/53215439683/physics-nobel-lau
: Physics Nobel Laureate Kenneth Wilson Dies
: Physics visionary Kenneth G. Wilson, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in
: Physics, died at the age of 77 on June 15 in Maine of complications
: following a lymphoma.
: “Ken Wilson was one of a very small number of physicists who changed the
: way we all think, not just about specific phenomena, but about a vast range
: of different phenomena,” said Steven Weinberg, a fellow physics Nobel
: Laureate.
: The Nobel Prize recognized Wilson’s ground-breaking work on phase

s*******i
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见老爱去了,rip
不过lz的反射弧有点长:)

range

【在 n*****b 的大作中提到】
: http://cornellcas.tumblr.com/post/53215439683/physics-nobel-lau
: Physics Nobel Laureate Kenneth Wilson Dies
: Physics visionary Kenneth G. Wilson, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in
: Physics, died at the age of 77 on June 15 in Maine of complications
: following a lymphoma.
: “Ken Wilson was one of a very small number of physicists who changed the
: way we all think, not just about specific phenomena, but about a vast range
: of different phenomena,” said Steven Weinberg, a fellow physics Nobel
: Laureate.
: The Nobel Prize recognized Wilson’s ground-breaking work on phase

q*d
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拜大神

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【在 n*****b 的大作中提到】
: http://cornellcas.tumblr.com/post/53215439683/physics-nobel-lau
: Physics Nobel Laureate Kenneth Wilson Dies
: Physics visionary Kenneth G. Wilson, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in
: Physics, died at the age of 77 on June 15 in Maine of complications
: following a lymphoma.
: “Ken Wilson was one of a very small number of physicists who changed the
: way we all think, not just about specific phenomena, but about a vast range
: of different phenomena,” said Steven Weinberg, a fellow physics Nobel
: Laureate.
: The Nobel Prize recognized Wilson’s ground-breaking work on phase

q*d
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按照那期大爆炸,又空出一个tenure啊

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C********n
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他早就退了吧
就算不退也是20年不干正事了

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: 按照那期大爆炸,又空出一个tenure啊
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n*****b
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昨天才看到新闻
看到这个版还没贴才转来的
见谅

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: 见老爱去了,rip
: 不过lz的反射弧有点长:)
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