Pioneering Physicist and Nobel Laureate Kenneth Wilson Dies
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 08:30
in Astronomy & Space
Physics visionary Kenneth G. Wilson, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physics, died at the age of 77 on Saturday, June 15, 2013, in Maine of complications following a lymphoma. The Nobel Prize recognized Wilson's groundbreaking work on phase transitions, such as the transformation of a substance from the liquid to the gaseous state. Wilson was led to this breakthrough from his struggles with mysteries in elementary particle physics and quantum field theory, topics that would appear to have no relationship to phenomena in liquids or gases.