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Ken Wilson, wearing a coat and tie, sitting at a terminal next to a large bank of computer cabinets. He is speaking to someone on a telephone. He had dark, messy hair and strong eyebrows. His coat appears to be tan or light gray, but the photo is black and white so it is hard to tell.

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Ken Wilson, wearing a coat and tie, sitting at a terminal next to a large bank of computer cabinets. He is speaking to someone on a telephone. He had dark, messy hair and strong eyebrows. His coat appears to be tan or light gray, but the photo is black and white so it is hard to tell.
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Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jun-2023 16:12:56 UTC Robert McNees

Physicist Ken Wilson was born OTD in 1936. He invented lattice gauge theory and pioneered the modern view of the renormalization group. This latter contribution informs everything from the physics of phase transitions to how we interpret quantum field theories.
Image: Cornell U.

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