Arthur Wilson (crystallographer)
Arthur James Cochran Wilson, FRS was a Canadian-British crystallographer known for his work on the statistical aspects of X-ray crystallography.
Education and career
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.After retirement he returned to Cambridge to chair the International Union of Crystallography's Commission on International Tables, which were in need of updating. He died in Cambridge on 1 July 1995.