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
[edit]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
[edit]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 a honorary doctor degree from Dalhousie University in 1991.[1]
Personal life
[edit]Wilson had married Harriett Friedeberg in 1946; they had two sons and a daughter.
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- 1914 births
- 1995 deaths
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- Academics of the University of Birmingham
- People from Cumberland County, Nova Scotia
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
- Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
- Alumni of the University of Cambridge
- Canadian crystallographers
- British crystallographers
- King's-Edgehill School alumni