Robert Wilson

Robert A . Wilson The Finite Simple Groups

Robert R . Wilson Prize for Achievement in the Physics of

David Arnett received a B.S. in physics from the University of Kentucky in 1961 and a Ph.D. in physics from Yale University in 1965. He has held positions at Caltech, Rice University, UT Austin, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, University of Chicago (Enrico Fermi Institute), University of Arizona (1988present). Arnett performed the first radiation hydrodynamic simulations of gravitatio...

Loch ness, special operations executive and the first surgeon in paradise: Robert Kenneth Wilson (26.1.1899-6.6.1969).

Lieutenant Colonel Robert Kenneth Wilson (1899-1969) was a surgeon who fought in both world wars and joined the Special Operations Executive parachuting behind enemy lines into Holland, France and Borneo, the last mission being with Australian forces (Semut II). He was an expert on firearms and gave opinion on ballistics at the Old Bailey during the 1930s. He also wrote a definitive text on aut...

Robert A . Wilson 21 / 09 / 07 , R . T . Curtis 60 th birthday conference

The Lie algebras of types G2, F4 and E8 have dimensions 14, 52 and 248 respectively. The classical explanation of these numbers is as the rank plus the number of roots. Half the roots are positive and half are negative: the number of positive roots is 6, 24 and 120 in the three cases. That is 3!, 4!, and 5!. Why? Perhaps there is another ‘explanation’: divide by 2 and we get 7, 26 and 124. Add ...

In Robert Wilson & Frank Keil (eds) MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (Cambridge, Mass

Most work in the cognitive sciences focuses on the manner in which an individual device -be it a mind, a brain, or a computer -processes various kinds of information. Cognitive psychology in particular is primarily concerned with individual thought and behavior. Individuals however belong to populations. This is true in two quite different senses. Individual organisms are members of species and...