Kenneth Geddes Wilson
History and Philosophy of Physics
2014-03-18 v2 High Energy Physics - Lattice
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
A look back at Kenneth Wilson's contributions to theoretical physics, with some reminiscences of the professor I encountered at Cornell during the 1980s.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1312.6861,
title = {Kenneth Geddes Wilson},
author = {Andreas S. Kronfeld},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.6861},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
9 pp. Obituary and eulogy presented at the 31st International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory - LATTICE 2013, July 29 - August 3, 2013, Mainz, Germany; v2 corrects typos, updates refs, and is identical to PoS version