Raymond Wilson
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Raymond G. Wilson, Emeritus Associate Professor of Physics, was born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1932. After two years of military service, 1952-54 he entered the University of Illinois as a student of physics, graduating in 1958, and taking a Masters teaching degree in 1960. He taught at the Mid-Pacific Institute, Honolulu, 1960-62 and then joined.... more
Raymond G. Wilson, Emeritus Associate Professor of Physics, was born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1932. After two years of military service, 1952-54 he entered the University of Illinois as a student of physics, graduating in 1958, and taking a Masters teaching degree in 1960. He taught at the Mid-Pacific Institute, Honolulu, 1960-62 and then joined the physics department of Illinois Wesleyan University. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona's Optical Sciences Center in 1970, and continued at Illinois Wesleyan where he remained until retirement from full-time teaching in 1997. He continued teaching as an adjunct professor until 2012. In addition to teaching about nuclear war issues for 53 years, Professor Wilson has been a somewhat regular visiting scholar to Nagasaki and to a Hiroshima University which lost 352 women students and 20 faculty and staff on August 6, 1945. With Akiko Wilson he is co-director of the Hiroshima Panorama Project in the United States (at Amazon.com see, "HIROSHIMA: Three Photo-panoramas of the Destroyed City, October 1945"). He is associated with the Atomic Bomb Museum Web site. The IWU Magazine (Winter 2005) has a highly readable article "Nuclear Options" that presents Professor Wilson's work in this area.: http://www.iwu.edu/iwunews/magazine/pastissues/Winter_2005/nuclear_winter05.shtml