Talk:Kenneth G. Wilson

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This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 09:57, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

What ever happen to Ken's Gibbs Project?

At Cornell, Ken promised to help solve parallel computing problems (his wife should be mentioned on this page, because she (a computer scientist) was mentioned in the Science articles where Gibbs was mentioned. 198.123.56.217 (talk) 19:54, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

Incomplete and has omissions

First suggestion is to read the Nobel Prize related records.

In the highlights box upper right under Institutions only Cornell University is shown. Wilson left Cornell to take a post at Ohio State Univesity to pursue his interests in science education. He was at Ohio State Physics for twenty years. The text says he moved to Ohio State but says nothing about the last twenty years of his academic career.

During the years at Ohio State he continued doing research, notably in the field of light-front quantum chromodynamics. While he continued an active research program at Ohio State his interests shifted to focus on a radical and visionary reform of science education.

He was awarded the Aneesure Rahman Prize in 1993 by the American Physical Society for his pioneering efforts in the field of computational physics and for the invention of lattice gauge theory which established the framework for lattice field theory.

Wilson was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Physical Society and the American Philosophical Society. He also served on the Board of Directors of the National Education Association National Foundation.

The New York Times had an extensive biography in the print edition, June 21, 2013, p. B15.Danleywolfe (talk) 10:24, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

I added some of the above to the article. I also added his mother's name, and removed the number of his siblings (he had 2 full-sibs and 3-half sibs). I didn't have the inspiration to mention that an important reason for him accepting the Associate Professor position at Cornell was the existence of a local folk-dancing group. Cornell, OSU, NYT and Washington Post (as well as the Nobel committee) have biographical information if anyone wants to add more references... Also he was instrumental in getting the National Academy (as well as the State of Ohio) to adopt active participation of K-12 students in learning (compared to passive listening to lectures).173.189.77.209 (talk) 20:01, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

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