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Canadian crystallographer (1914-1995)
Arthur James Cochran Wilson, FRS[1] (28 November 1914 – 1 July 1995) was a Canadian-British crystallographer known for his work on the statistical aspects of X-ray crystallography.[2]
Education and career[edit]He was born in Springhill, Nova Scotia. He was educated at King's Collegiate School, Windsor, Nova Scotia, and Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he was awarded a BSc in 1934 and an MSc in 1936. He received his first PhD in 1938 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the anomalous thermal behaviour of the ferro-electric Rochelle salt.[3]
After retirement he returned to Cambridge to chair the International Union of Crystallography's Commission on International (Crystallographic) Tables, which were in need of updating. He died in Cambridge on 1 July 1995.
Honours and awards[edit]Wilson was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1963. He was vice-president of the International Union of Crystallography between 1978 and 1981. He received the Distinguished Fellow Award from the International Centre for Diffraction Data in 1984. He was awarded a honorary doctor degree from Dalhousie University in 1991.[1]
Wilson had married Harriett Friedeberg in 1946; they had two sons and a daughter.
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