Edgar Bright Wilson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Edgar Bright Wilson

American chemist

Date of Birth: 18-Dec-1908

Place of Birth: Tennessee, United States

Date of Death: 12-Jun-1992

Profession: chemist, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Edgar Bright Wilson

  • Edgar Bright Wilson Jr.
  • (December 18, 1908 – June 12, 1992) was an American chemist.Wilson was a prominent and accomplished chemist and teacher, recipient of the National Medal of Science in 1975, Guggenheim Fellowships in 1949 and 1970, the Elliott Cresson Medal in 1982, and a number of honorary doctorates.
  • He was also the Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus at Harvard University.
  • One of his sons, Kenneth G.
  • Wilson, was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1982. E.
  • B.
  • Wilson was a student and protégé of Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling and was a coauthor with Pauling of Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, a graduate level textbook in Quantum Mechanics.
  • Wilson was also the thesis advisor of Nobel Laureate Dudley Herschbach.
  • Wilson was elected to the first class of the Harvard Society of Fellows. Wilson made major contributions to the field of molecular spectroscopy.
  • He developed the first rigorous quantum mechanical Hamiltonian in internal coordinates for a polyatomic molecule.
  • He developed the theory of how rotational spectra are influenced by centrifugal distortion during rotation.
  • He pioneered the use of group theory for the analysis and simplification normal mode analysis, particularly for high symmetry molecules, such as benzene.
  • In 1955, with J.C.
  • Decius and Paul C.
  • Cross, Wilson published Molecular Vibrations, still the primary reference text for the theoretical analysis of vibrational spectroscopy, including the GF matrix method that Wilson had developed.
  • Following the Second World War, Wilson was a pioneer in the application of microwave spectroscopy to the determination of molecular structure.
  • Wilson wrote an influential introductory text Introduction to Scientific Research that provided an introduction of all the steps of scientific research, from defining a problem through the archival of data after publication. Starting in 1997, the American Chemical Society has annually awarded the E.
  • Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy, named in honor of Wilson.

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