American mathematician, author, and cultural critic | Cynical Theories | University of Tennessee, Tennessee Technological University, Maryville High School
Kenneth G. Wilson
- Waltham: June 8, 1936 celebration
- Saco: June 15, 2013 celebration


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Kenneth G. Wilson -
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celebration Date of birth
Waltham: June 8, 1936 -
deceased Rest in Peace
Saco: June 15, 2013 -
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engineering Field of Work
- physics
- theoretical physics
- critical phenomena
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- Murray Gell-Mann
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- Michael Peskin
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school Education
- Harvard College
- California Institute of Technology
- Harvard University
- George School
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trophy Awards & Honors
- Wolf Prize in Physics (1980)
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship (1980)
- Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics (1993)
- Nobel Prize in Physics (1982)
- Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (1973)
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Boltzmann Medal (1975)
- Eringen Medal (1984)
- Fellow of the American Physical Society
- Franklin Medal (1982)
- Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Physics (1989)
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- critical phenomena
- Nobel prize winning US physicist | Wolf Prize in Physics (1980), Guggenheim Fellowship, Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship (1980), Aneesur Rahman Prize for