James R. Wilson

James "Jim" Ricker Wilson (October 21, 1922, Berkeley, California – August 14, 2007, Livermore, California) was an American theoretical physicist, known for his pioneering research in numerical relativity and numerical relativistic hydrodynamics.

Biography After graduating in 1942 with a B.S. degree in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), he served in the U.S. Army, working in a minor role on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. After working at Los Alamos from 1944 to 1946 he returned as a graduate student in physics to UC Berkeley. There he received his Ph.D. in 1952. who was elected in 1958 a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). After working for a year from 1952 to 1953 at Albuquerque's U.S. Army Sandia Laboratory, Wilson became in 1953 a staff member of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he worked until shortly before his death at age 84. and their love of mountains was "one of their strongest bonds."

James Ricker Wilson should not be confused with James Randall Wilson, who was elected in 2001 a fellow of the APS.

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