Physics Department Faculty:
Richard Wilson
Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, EmeritusD.Phil. 1949, Oxford
Richard Wilson has worked on a variety of projects
in his 50-year career in nuclear and particle physics
and more recently in various topics in Risk assessment
and Risk-Benefit Analysis.
Starting with nucleon scattering, he has more recently
worked on scattering of leptons, both electrons and
muons, by nucleons. Then on electron-
positron colliding beams firstly at Harvard (CEA) from
1970-73, then at Cornell University, (CLEO project)
until 2001. He is still working on two
smaller activities: experiment (HAPPEX) with scattering
of polarized electrons by protons at the CEBAF (JLAB)
in Virginia, to search for strange quark form factors,
and on "little a" in neutron decay at Indiana and NIST
in Maryland. Richard Wilson
presently works on Risk-Benefit Analysis, and on cancer
incidence at old age (>80years). Fuller
and updated detail can be found on the website he personally
maintains at http://physics.harvard.edu/~wilson.