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Richard Wilson (born 29 April 1926, London, England) is a British born American physicist. His original fields were nuclear and elementary particle physics but branched out into applications of physics in other disciplines. Most of his career he has been a physics professor at Harvard University. ==Biography== Wilson was born in Putney, London, on 29 April 1926 to Dorothy Jennett Kingston, a teacher of French, and Percy Wilson a civil servant in the Board of Education, who had been a Naval officer in WWI. He went to Colet Court school in Hammersmith, a preparatory School for St Paul's School, and then to St Paul's School from 1939 - 1943. He earned a BA in 1946 at Christ Church Oxford, and an MA and D Phil in 1949. He was awarded a Research Lectureship at Christ Church from 1949-1954. On leave from this lectureship he visited America on a Guggenheii fellowship in 1950 - 1952, firstly at Rochester New York, then at Stanford University, California. While at Stanford he married Andree Desiree Dumond, daughter of the physicist Jesse Dumond of California Institute of Technology. He returned to Oxford in 1952 for 3 years before taking up a position as Assistant Professor at Harvard University where he is now Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics (emeritus). He visited the USSR in 1958. After the dissolution of the USSR helped to found the International Sakharov University in Minsk, Belarus in 1991. Since 1975 he became a frequent visitor to the Arab countries. He has lectured in 44 different countries. In 1988 he became a member of the Science Advisory Board of the Atlantic Legal Foundation, a public interest law foundation. He and his wife have 6 children. A collection of photographs of various aspects of his life: (Richard Wilson Photographs ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Wilson (physicist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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