Sir Alan Herries Wilson FRS (2 July 1906 – 30 September 1995), was a British mathematical physicist and industrialist.

[1] He was educated at Wallasey Grammar School and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, obtaining a BA degree in mathematics in 1926.

Wilson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1942 for his work in advancing the theory of conduction in metals and semiconductors.

During the World War II he worked on radio communications problems for the Special Operation Executive (SOE), and was later attached to the British Tube Alloys project to develop the atomic bomb.

[4] In 1962 he left Courtaulds due in part to a takeover bid by ICI and joined Glaxo, a pharmacy company, becoming chairman in 1963 until his retirement in 1973.