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         Wilson Kenneth G:     more books (39)
  1. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English by Kenneth G. Wilson, 1993-04-15
  2. Advances in Periodontics by Thomas G., Jr. Wilson, Kenneth S. Kornman, 1992-04
  3. Van Winkle's Return: Change in American English, 1966-1986 by Kenneth G. Wilson, 1987-06-01
  4. Models in Plant Physiology and Biochemistry by David W., Ph.D. Newman, 1987-10
  5. Impact Of Unions On Us Economy (Garland Studies on Industrial Productivity) by Kenneth G. Wilson, 1995-02-01
  6. Biography - Wilson, Kenneth G(eorge) (1923-2003): An article from: Contemporary Authors by Gale Reference Team, 2003-01-01
  7. Redesigning Education by Kenneth G. Wilson, Bennett Daviss, 1996-08-01
  8. Vivacious, Thorny Topics by Kenneth G. Wilson, 2010-10-20
  9. Van Winkle's Return by Kenneth g. Wilson, 1987-01-01
  10. Essays on Language and Usage by Leonard F.; Wilson, Kenneth G. (Editors) Dean, 1960-01-01
  11. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English by Kenneth G. Wilson, 1993-01-01
  12. Harbrace guide to dictionaries, by Kenneth G Wilson, 1963
  13. Wisdom-Centered Learning: Striking a New Paradigm for Education.: An article from: School Administrator by Kenneth G. Wilson, 1994-05-01
  14. Vivacious, Thorny Topics by Kenneth G Wilson, 2010-10-20

1. Kenneth G. Wilson - Autobiography
kenneth G. wilson – Autobiography. wilson became the Director of the Center forTheory and Simulation in Science and From nobel Lectures, Physics 19811990.
http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1982/wilson-autobio.html
I was born 1936 in Waltham, Massachusetts, the son of E. Bright Wilson Jr. and Emily Buckingham Wilson. My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University ; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage. My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.
My schooling took place in Wellesley, Woods Hole, Massachusetts (second, third/fourth grades in two years), Shady Hill School in Cambridge, Mass. (from fifth to eighth grade), ninth grade at the Magdalen College School in Oxford, England, and tenth and twelfth grades (skipping the eleventh) at the George School in eastern Pennsylvania. Before the year in England I had read about mathematics and physics in books supplied by my father and his friends. I learned the basic principle of calculus from Mathematics and Imagination by Kasner and Newman, and went of to work through a calculus text, until I got stuck in a chapter on involutes and evolutes. Around this time I decided to become a physicist. Later (before entering college) I remember working on symbolic logic with my father; he also tried, unsuccessfully, to teach me group theory. I found high school dull. In 1952 I entered Harvard. I majored in mathematics, but studied physics (both by intent), participated in the Putnam Mathematics competition, and ran the mile for the track team (and crosscountry as well). I began research, working summers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, especially for Arnold Arons (then based at Amherst).

2. Kenneth G. Wilson Winner Of The 1982 Nobel Prize In Physics
kenneth G. wilson, a nobel Prize Laureate in Physics, at the nobelPrize Internet Archive. kenneth G. wilson. 1982 nobel Laureate
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K ENNETH G W ILSON
1982 Nobel Laureate in Physics
    for his theory for critical phenomena in connection with phase transitions.
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    Born: 1936
    Residence: U.S.A.
    Affiliation: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
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wilson, kenneth G. 1982. wilson, Robert W. 1978. Yang, Chen Ning, 1957. Yukawa,Hideki, 1949. Zeeman, Pieter, 1902. Zernike, Frits, 1953. Back to The NobelPrize
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  • 6. Kenneth G. Wilson: From Quantum Chromodynamics To Redesigning Education
    Ware Myers kenneth G. wilson, the nobel laureate discovered he could further hisphysics research by computation, and helped develop the nowubiquitous theme
    http://www.computer.org/cise/cs1994/c4016abs.htm
    Winter 1994 (Vol. 1, No. 4) p p. 16-18 Kenneth G. Wilson: From Quantum Chromodynamics to Redesigning Education Ware  Myers Kenneth G. Wilson, the Nobel laureate discovered he could further his physics research by computation, and helped develop the now-ubiquitous theme of grand challenges using supercomputing. He also discovered something else: the way we prepare students to face the modern world's challenges, grand or otherwise, needs reengineering. The full text of IEEE Computational Science and Engineering is available to members of the IEEE Computer Society who have an online subscription and a web account

    7. Kenneth G. Wilson Profile
    The ultimate recognition of his achievements in Physics came with his 1982 awardof the nobel Prize in Physics kenneth G. wilson's Curriculum Vitae.
    http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~kgw/kgw.html
    Profile of Kenneth G. Wilson
    Kenneth Wilson was born in 1936 in Waltham, Massachusetts, the son of a very distinguished chemist who taught at Harvard University throughout his career. Wilson was an undergraduate at Harvard College, and obtained his doctorate in 1961 at the California Institute of Technology , where he was a student of Murray Gell-Mann. He was then a Junior Fellow in Harvard's Society of Fellows, and joined Cornell University 's Department of Physics in 1963. He held a professorship there beginning in 1970, and the James A. Weeks Chair in Physical Sciences since 1974. Wilson became the Director of the Center for Theory and Simulation in Science and Engineering ( Cornell Theory Center ) - one of five national supercomputer centers created by the National Science Foundation - in 1985. In 1988, Wilson moved to The Ohio State University 's Department of Physics where he became the Hazel C. Youngberg Trustees Distinguished Professor. From 1991 to 1996, he was Co-Principal Investigator on Ohio's Project Discovery , one of the National Science Foundation's Statewide Systemic Initiatives.  Wilson currently co-directs

    8. Kenneth Wilson Curriculum Vitae
    NameWilson, kenneth G. Tech., 1981 Franklin Medal, 1982 nobel Prize forPhysics, 1982 AC Eringen Medal, 1984 Aneesur Rahman Prize, 1993.
    http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~kgw/kgwcv.html
    Kenneth Wilson Curriculum Vitae
    Name: Wilson, Kenneth G. Title: Hazel C. Youngberg Trustees Distinguished Professor Date of Birth: June 8, 1936 Place of Birth: Waltham, Massachusetts Citizenship: U.S. Highest Degree Granted: Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1961 Date Employed at Ohio State: August 1988 Previous Employment:
    James A. Weeks Professor, Cornell Univ., 1974-88
    Junior Fellow, Harvard, 1959-62
    Ford Foundation Fellow, CERN, 1962 Memberships:
    National Academy of Sciences (elected 1975)
    American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 1975)
    American Philosophical Society (elected 1984) Awards:
    Dannie Heinemann Prize, 1973
    Boltzmann Medal, 1975
    Wolf Prize, 1980
    D.Sc (Hon.), Harvard, 1981 Distinguished Alumni Award, Cal. Tech., 1981 Franklin Medal, 1982 Nobel Prize for Physics, 1982 A.C. Eringen Medal, 1984 Aneesur Rahman Prize, 1993 Partial list of Publications Return to Kenneth Wilson home page. Last updated May 4, 1995 Created by Mike Kositzke; e-mail to: mak@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu Maintained by Mike and Rochelle Athey; email to: discover@mps.ohio-state.edu

    9. Kenneth G. Wilson
    kenneth G. wilson. ultimate recognition of his achievements in Physics came with his1982 award of the nobel Prize in kenneth wilson's homepage from May 4, 1995
    http://www1.physik.tu-muenchen.de/~gammel/matpack/html/Biographies/Wilson_Kennet
    Kenneth G. Wilson
    * 1936 in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
    Kenneth Wilson Wilson was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1975, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1975, and the American Philosophical Society in 1984. In 1980, he shared Israel's $100,000 Wolf Prize in Physics with Michael Fisher and Leo Kadanoff. The ultimate recognition of his achievements in Physics came with his 1982 award of the Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded for discoveries he made in understanding how bulk matter undergoes "phase transition", i.e., sudden and profound structural changes resulting from variations in environmental conditions. Wilson's background prior to educational reform ranges from elementary particle theory and condensed matter physics (critical phenomena and the Kondo problem) to quantum chemistry and computer science, where he is co-inventor of a new programming style called Gibbs, still under development. R eferences:
  • Kenneth Wilson's homepage from May 4, 1995.
  • 10. Physics Nobel Laureates 1975 - Today
    The first nobel prize in physics was awarded to Wilhelm Röntgen in 1901. Physics1975. wilson, kenneth G. , USA, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, * 1936
    http://www1.physik.tu-muenchen.de/~gammel/matpack/html/Chronics/physics_laureate
    The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
    (Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien)
    Physics 1975
    The prize was awarded jointly to: BOHR, AAGE, Denmark, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, MOTTELSON, BEN, Denmark, Nordita, Copenhagen, * 1926 (in Chicago, U.S.A.); and RAINWATER, JAMES, U.S.A., Columbia University, New York, NY, "for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection".
    Physics 1976
    The prize was divided equally between: RICHTER, BURTON, U.S.A., Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford, CA, TING, SAMUEL C. C., U.S.A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, (European Center for Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland), "for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind".
    Physics 1977
    The prize was divided equally between: ANDERSON, PHILIP W., U.S.A., Bell Laboratories,Murray Hill, NJ, MOTT, Sir NEVILL F., Great Britain, Cambridge University, Cambridge

    11. Pictures Gallery Of The Nobel Prize Winners In Physics
    Translate this page The nobel Prize in Physics. 1998. Robert B. Laughlin Horst L. Störmer DanielC. Tsui 1997. Steven Fowler 1982. kenneth G. wilson 1981. Nicolaas
    http://www.th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de/~jr/physpicnobel.html
    The Nobel Prize in Physics
    Robert B. Laughlin
    Daniel C. Tsui
    Steven Chu
    ...
    Hannes Olof Gosta Alfven

    Louis Eugene Felix Neel
    Murray Gell-Mann
    Luis Walter Alvarez
    Hans Albrecht Bethe
    Alfred Kastler
    Richard Phillips Feynman

    Julian Seymour Schwinger

    Sin-Itiro Tomonaga
    Nikolai Gennadievich Basov
    Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov

    Charles Hard Townes
    Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen

    Maria Goeppert-Mayer
    ...
    Sir Edward Victor Appleton
    Percy Williams Bridgman
    Wolfgang Ernst Pauli
    Isidor Isaac Rabi
    Otto Stern
    None
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    Ernest Orlando Lawrence
    Enrico Fermi
    Clinton Joseph Davisson

    Sir George Paget Thomson
    ...
    Sir James Chadwick
    None
    Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
    Werner Karl Heisenberg
    None
    Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
    Prince Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie
    Sir Owen Willans Richardson
    Arthur Holly Compton

    Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
    Jean Baptiste Perrin
    James Franck

    Gustav Ludwig Hertz
    Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn
    Robert Andrews Millikan
    ...
    Albert Einstein
    Charles Eduard Guillaume
    Johannes Stark
    Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
    Charles Glover Barkla
    None
    Sir William Henry Bragg
    Sir William Lawrence Bragg
    Max Theodor Felix von Laue
    Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
    ... Guglielmo Marconi
    Gabriel Jonas Lippmann
    Albert Abraham Michelson
    Sir Joseph John Thomson
    Philipp Eduard Anton Lenard
    John William Strutt (Lord Rayleigh)
    ...
    Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
    Donated by Christopher Walker, University of Ulster

    12. Wilson, Kenneth, G.
    wilson, kenneth, G. (1936). (added in 1991) wilson became the Director of theCenter for Theory and Simulation in From nobel Lectures, Physics 1981-1990.
    http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/W/Wilsonk/Wilson
    Wilson, Kenneth, G. I was born 1936 in Waltham, Massachusetts, the son of E. Bright Wilson Jr. and Emily Buckingham Wilson. My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage. My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.
    In 1962 I went to CERN for a calendar year, first on my Junior Fellowship and then as a Ford Foundation fellow. Mostly, I worked but I found time to join Henry Kendall and James Bjorken on a climb of Mt. Blanc. I spent January through August of 1963 touring Europe.
    In September of 1963 I came to Cornell as an Assistant Professor. I received tenure as an Associate Professor in 1965, became Full Professor in 1971 and the James A. Weeks Professor in 1974. I came to Cornell in response to an unsolicited offer I received while at CERN; I accepted the offer because Cornell was a good university, was out in the country and was reputed to have a good folk dancing group, folk-dancing being a hobby I had taken up as a graduate student.
    I have remained at Cornell ever since, except for leaves and summer visits: I spent the 1969 - 1970 academic year at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, the spring of 1972 at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the fall of 1976 at the California Institute of Technology as a Fairchild Scholar, and the academic year 1979 - 80 at the IBM Zürich Laboratory.

    13. Physics
    Themes Geography History History Prize Winners nobel Prize Physics.Year, Winners. 1901, Röntgen, Wilhelm Conrad. 1982, wilson, kenneth G.
    http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/GeogHist/histories/prizewinners/nobelprize/p
    Themes History Prize Winners Nobel Prize
    Year
    Winners
    Röntgen, Wilhelm Conrad Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon Zeeman, Pieter Becquerel, Antoine Henri ... Bragg, William Lawrence The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section Barkla, Charles Glover Planck, Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Stark, Johannes Guillaume, Charles Edouard ... Raman, Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section Heisenberg, Werner Karl Schrödinger, Erwin Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice The prize money was 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section Chadwick, James Hess, Victor Franz Anderson, Carl David Davisson, Clinton Joseph ... Lawrence, Ernest Orlando The prize money was 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section The prize money was 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section The prize money was 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section Stern, Otto

    14. Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Society: Nobel Laureates
    About Sigma Xi » Overview » nobel Laureates wilson 1979 Sheldon L. Glashow 1979Steven Weinberg 1981 Nicolaas Bloembergen 1982 kenneth G. wilson 1983 S
    http://www.sigmaxi.org/about/overview/nobel.shtml
    Overview Leadership Organization News ... Contact Us About: Overview
    Overview
    Physics
    1907 Albert Michelson
    1921 Albert Einstein
    1923 Robert A. Millikan
    1925 James Franck
    1927 Arthur H. Compton
    1936 Carl D. Anderson
    1937 Clinton J. Davisson 1938 Enrico Fermi 1939 Ernest O. Lawrence 1943 Otto Stern 1944 Isidor Isaac Rabi 1945 Wolfgang Pauli 1946 Percy Williams Bridgman 1952 Felix Bloch 1952 Edward M. Purcell 1955 Polykarp Kusch 1955 Willis E. Lamb, Jr. 1956 John Bardeen 1956 Walter H. Brattain 1956 William Shockley 1957 Chen Ning Yang 1958 Igor Y. Tamm 1959 Owen Chamberlain 1959 Emilio G. Segre 1960 Donald A. Glaser 1961 Robert Hofstadter 1963 Eugene P. Wigner

    15. Nobel Physics Prize - Press Release 1982
    AWARDED The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the nobel Prizein Physics for 1982 to Professor kenneth G. wilson, Cornell University
    http://theorie.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~kinzel/mechanik/wilson.html

    Press Release: The 1982 Nobel Prize in Physics
    KUNGL. VETENSKAPSAKADEMIEN
    THE ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    18 October 1982 NEW THEORY FOR PHASE TRANSITIONS AWARDED
    The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
    has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1982 to
    Professor Kenneth G. Wilson Cornell University , Ithaca, USA for his theory for critical phenomena in connection with phase transitions.
    In daily life and from classical physics we know that matter can exist in different phases and that transitions from one phase to another may occur if we change, for example, the pressure or the temperature. A liquid goes over into a gas phase when sufficiently heated, a metal melts at a certain temperature, a permanent magnet loses its magnetization above a certain critical temperature, just to give a few examples.
    Phase transitions have been studied in physics over a long time and for a large number of different systems. The phase transition is often characterized by an abrupt change in the value of some physical properties. In other cases the transition from one phase to another may be rather smooth. Examples of the latter case is the transition between liquid and gas at the critical point, and from ferromagnetism to paramagnetism in metals such as iron, nickel and cobalt. These smooth phase transitions show instead a number of typical anomalies near the critical point. Some quantities grow above all limits when one approaches the critical temperature. These anomalies, usually called

    16. Nobel Prizes In Physics
    nobel Prizes in Physics. VL Fitch (USA) 1981 N. Bloembergen (USA) AL Schawlow (USA)Kai Manne Siegbahn (Sweden, *191804-20) 1982 kenneth G. wilson (USA, *1936
    http://userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de/diverse/bib/nobel_physik_e.html
    Nobel Prizes in Physics
    (Information not checked)
    (Germany, 1845-03-27 - 1923-02-10)
    Discovery of X rays
    Hendrik A. Lorentz (Netherlands, 1853-07-18 - 1929-02-04)
    Pieter Zeeman (Netherlands, 1865-05-25 - 1943-10-09)
    Henri A. Becquerel (France, 1852-12-15 - 1908-08-25)
    Marie Curie (France, Poland, 1867-11-07 - 1934-07-04)
    Pierre Curie (France, 1859-05-15 - 1906-04-19)
    Discovery of radioactivity
    Lord Rayleigh (United Kingdom)
    Philipp E. Lenard (Germany, 1862-06-07 - 1947-05-20)
    Joseph J. Thomson (United Kingdom, 1856-12-18 - 1940-04-30)
    Conduction of electricity in gases
    Albert A. Michelson (USA, 1852-12-19 - 1931-05-09)
    Measurement of the speed of light
    G. Lippmann (France)
    Karl Ferdinand Braun (Germany, 1850-06-06 - 1918-04-20)
    Guglielmo Marconi (Italy, 1874-04-25 - 1937-07-20)
    wireless telegraphy
    Johann D. van der Waals (Netherlands, 1837-11-23 - 1923-03-07)
    Molecular forces
    Wilhelm Wien (Germany, 1864-01-13 - 1928-08-30)
    Heat radiation
    (Sweden)
    H. Kamerlingh Onnes (Netherlands)
    Max von Laue (Germany, 1879-10-09 - 1960-04-24)

    17. Caltech Academic Village - Nobel Laureates
    Ahmed H. Zewail, Chemistry 1999 Faculty. nobel Laureates, Retired Facultyand Alumni Anderson 1964. wilson, kenneth G. (PhD '61) Physics 1982.
    http://bookstore.caltech.edu/nobellist.html
    NOBEL LAUREATES
    Nobel Laureates Currently on Faculty David Baltimore , Physiology or Medicine 1975 President; Faculty Edward B. Lewis , (PhD '42) Physiology or Medicine 1995 Faculty Rudolph A. Marcus , Chemistry 1992 Faculty Ahmed H. Zewail , Chemistry 1999 Faculty Nobel Laureates, Retired Faculty and Alumni Anderson, Carl D. (BS '27, PhD '30) Physics 1936 Faculty
    Beadle, George W. Physiology or Medicine 1958 Faculty Delbrück, Max Physiology or Medicine 1969 Faculty Dulbecco, Renato Physiology or Medicine 1975 Former Faculty Feynman, Richard P. Physics 1965 Faculty Fowler, William A. (PhD '36) Physics 1983 Faculty Gell-Mann, Murray Physics 1969 Faculty Glaser, Donald A. (PhD '50) Physics 1960 Lipscomb, William N. (PhD '46) Chemistry 1976 Merton, Robert C. MS '67 Economics 1997 McMillan, Edwin M. (BS '28, MS '29) Chemistry 1951 Millikan, Robert A. Physics 1923 Faculty Morgan, Thomas H. Physiology or Medicine 1933 Faculty Mossbauer, Rudolf Physics 1961 Faculty Osheroff, Douglas D. (BS '67) Physics 1996

    18. Physics 1982
    The nobel Prize in Physics 1982. for his theory for critical phenomenain connection with phase transitions . kenneth G. wilson. USA.
    http://physics.uplb.edu.ph/laureates/1982/
    Nobel Prize in Physics 1901-2000
    http://www.nobel.se
    The Nobel Prize in Physics 1982
    "for his theory for critical phenomena in connection with phase transitions" Kenneth G. Wilson USA Cornell University
    Ithaca, NY, USA The Nobel Prize in Physics 1982
    Press Release

    Kenneth G. Wilson
    Autobiography

    19. Autobiography Of K. G. Wilson
    kenneth G. wilson. I was born 1936 in Waltham, Massachusetts, the son of E. Brightwilson Jr. (added in 1991) wilson became the Copyright The nobel Foundation,
    http://physics.uplb.edu.ph/laureates/1982/wilson-autobio.html
    Nobel Prize in Physics 1901-2000
    http://www.nobel.se
    KENNETH G. WILSON
    I was born 1936 in Waltham, Massachusetts, the son of E. Bright Wilson Jr. and Emily Buckingham Wilson. My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University ; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage. My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.
    My schooling took place in Wellesley, Woods Hole, Massachusetts (second, third/fourth grades in two years), Shady Hill School in Cambridge, Mass. (from fifth to eighth grade), ninth grade at the Magdalen College School in Oxford, England, and tenth and twelfth grades (skipping the eleventh) at the George School in eastern Pennsylvania. Before the year in England I had read about mathematics and physics in books supplied by my father and his friends. I learned the basic principle of calculus from Mathematics and Imagination by Kasner and Newman, and went of to work through a calculus text, until I got stuck in a chapter on involutes and evolutes. Around this time I decided to become a physicist. Later (before entering college) I remember working on symbolic logic with my father; he also tried, unsuccessfully, to teach me group theory. I found high school dull. In 1952 I entered Harvard. I majored in mathematics, but studied physics (both by intent), participated in the Putnam Mathematics competition, and ran the mile for the track team (and crosscountry as well). I began research, working summers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, especially for Arnold Arons (then based at Amherst).

    20. The Nobel Prize For Physics (1901-1998)
    watch the nobel Foundation web site at http//www.nobel.se Bloembergen Laser spectroscopyArthur L. Schawlow 1982 1972 kenneth G. wilson Critical phenomena
    http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Administrivia/nobel.html
    [Physics FAQ] Updated October 1998 by Nathan Urban.
    Updated 1997,96 by PEG.
    Updated 1994 by SIC.
    Original by Scott I. Chase.
    The Nobel Prize for Physics (1901-1998)
    The following is a complete listing of Nobel Prize awards, from the first award in 1901. Prizes were not awarded in every year. The date in brackets is the approximate date of the work. The description following the names is an abbreviation of the official citation. The Physics prize is announced near the beginning of October each year. One of the quickest ways to get the announcement is to watch the Nobel Foundation web site at http://www.nobel.se

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