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...physics for his development of the Renormalization Group (RG) into a central tool in physics.Wilson’s father, E. Bright Wilson Jr. was a professor of chemistry at Harvard. As an undergraduate, Wilson concentrated in mathematics, though he also studied physics. He won the prestigious Putnam fellowship, awarded to high scorers on a national collegiate math competition.Wilson described his time at Harvard as a “stimulating environment.” “The extraordinary members of the faculty I had access to, the fellow undergraduates that I knew, plus opportunities to participate in track...
...Institute of Politics.“If you’d once left journalism and gone to the other side it was really hard to regain your journalistic virginity,” Rosenthal says. “So my strategy for doing that was to get the fellowship at Harvard and to study something that didn’t have anything to do with the government.”He studied urban affairs, focusing on data that showed a larger proportion of the population was living and working in the suburbs. In 1969, he became the urban affairs correspondent...
...Armstrong was about to graduate summa cum laude when his life took an unexpected turn. He had been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) fellowship to cover his graduate studies in physics, but his House Master John Conway at Leverett House offered him the chance to travel in Europe for a year on a Sheldon travel fellowship. At the time, Armstrong, who had never ventured further than Washington D.C., decided to take the fellowship...
...physics adviser correctly predicted that he would lose his NSF fellowship, and incorrectly that he would ruin his career in an effort to convince him to refuse the trip and go straight to graduate school...
...disregarding these predictions, Armstrong was left to pursue his doctorate at Harvard, where the physics department already knew his background and the circumstances of the lost fellowship...