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Currently, Kenneth Wilson is 87 years, 10 months and 22 days old. Kenneth Wilson will celebrate 88rd birthday on a Saturday 8th of June 2024. Below we countdown to Kenneth Wilson upcoming birthday.
Popular As | Kenneth Wilson |
Occupation | Physicist |
Age | 87 years old |
Zodiac Sign | Gemini |
Born | June 8, 1936 (Massachusetts) |
Birthday | June 8 |
Town/City | Massachusetts |
Nationality | Massachusetts |
Kenneth Wilsonโs zodiac sign is Gemini. According to astrologers, Gemini is expressive and quick-witted, it represents two different personalities in one and you will never be sure which one you will face. They are sociable, communicative and ready for fun, with a tendency to suddenly get serious, thoughtful and restless. They are fascinated with the world itself, extremely curious, with a constant feeling that there is not enough time to experience everything they want to see.
Kenneth Wilson was born in the Year of the Rat. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rat are quick-witted, clever, charming, sharp and funny. They have excellent taste, are a good friend and are generous and loyal to others considered part of its pack. Motivated by money, can be greedy, is ever curious, seeks knowledge and welcomes challenges. Compatible with Dragon or Monkey.
Remembered for his work on the thermodynamics-related study of phase transitions, this distinguished Cornell University and Ohio State University physics professor was the 1982 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics. His pioneering work encompassed such theoretical physics concepts as the renormalization group and "Wilson Loops."
During his time at Harvard University, he excelled in both academics and athletics. He went on to receive a doctorate from the California Institute of Technology.
He was a co-recipient of the 1980 Wolf Prize in physics.
Born in Waltham, Massachusetts, to Harvard University chemist E. Bright Wilson and physicist Emily Buckingham Wilson, he later lived in New York, Ohio, and Maine. His brother, David Wilson, taught in the Molecular Biology and Genetics Department at Cornell.
During the 1980s, Wilson and Swiss-born scientist Heinrich Rohrer both received the Nobel Prize in Physics.