Albert George Wilson

Albert George Wilson

Albert George Wilson (born July 28 1918) is an American astronomer.

He was born in Houston, Texas. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Caltech in 1947; his thesis title was "Axially Symmetric Thermal Stresses in a Semi-Infinite Solid".

In 1949 he accepted a job at Palomar Observatory, and led the Palomar Sky Survey. In 1953 he became assistant director of Lowell Observatory, and served as director from 1954 to 1957. He later worked at Rand Corporation and other private sector jobs. In 1962 he became founding editor of the astronomical magazine "Icarus".

He discovered a number of asteroids, and also co-discovered the periodic comet 107P/Wilson-Harrington.

External links

* [http://www.lowell.edu/Research/library/paper/al_wilson.html Biography]


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