Wilson, Edwin Bidwell, 1879-1964
Edwin Bidwell Wilson papers, 1917-1964.
Files include correspondence with many physicists and astronomers, mainly about the National Academy of Sciences Proceedings, of which Wilson was the editor, but also on other subjects.
Physicist (mathematical physics and aeronautics). On the faculty at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1907-1917), department chair (1917-1922), and Harvard University as professor of vital statistics, School of Public Health (1922-1945), and professor emeritus from 1945; president of Social Science Research Council (1929-1931).
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) Proceedings.
Astronomers
Physicists.
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