Arthur Wilson (crystallographer)
Arthur Wilson | |
|---|---|
| Born | 28 November 1914 Springhill, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Died | 1 July 1995 (aged 80) Cambridge, England, UK |
| Education | Dalhousie University (BSc, MSc) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) University of Cambridge (PhD) |
| Known for | Wilson plot Wilson statistics |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Cardiff University University of Birmingham |
| Doctoral advisor | Hans Müller Lawrence Bragg |
| Doctoral students | David Chilton Phillips |
Arthur James Cochran Wilson, FRS[1] (28 November 1914 – 1 July 1995) was a Canadian-British crystallographer known for his work on the statistical aspects of X-ray crystallography.[2]
Education and career
He was born in Springhill, Nova Scotia. He was educated at King's Collegiate School, Windsor, Nova Scotia, and Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he was awarded a BSc in 1934 and an MSc in 1936. He received his first PhD in 1938 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the anomalous thermal behaviour of the ferro-electric Rochelle salt.[3]
After retirement he returned to Cambridge to chair the International Union of Crystallography's Commission on International (Crystallographic) Tables, which were in need of updating. He died in Cambridge on 1 July 1995.
Honours and awards
Wilson was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1963. He was vice-president of the International Union of Crystallography between 1978 and 1981. He received the Distinguished Fellow Award from the International Centre for Diffraction Data in 1984. He was awarded an honorary doctor degree from Dalhousie University in 1991.[1]
Personal life
Wilson had married Harriett Friedeberg in 1946; they had two sons and a daughter.
References
- ^ a b Woolfson, M. M. (1997). "Arthur James Cochran Wilson. 28 November 1914--1 July 1995: Elected F.R.S. 1963". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 43: 523. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1997.0029.
- ^ "(IUCr) A. J. C. Wilson, FRS (1914-1995)". Retrieved 15 September 2011.
- ^ Langford, Ian (13 July 1995). "Obituary: Professor Arthur Wilson - People, News - The Independent". London. Retrieved 15 September 2011.