Benjamin Widom (October 13, 1927 – January 23, 2025) was an American physical chemist.
His research interests included physical chemistry and statistical mechanics.
He graduated from New York City's Stuyvesant High School in 1945,[3] and received his BA from Columbia University in 1949, followed by his PhD from Cornell in 1953.
He was brother to Harold Widom, professor emeritus of mathematics at U. C. Santa Cruz.
Widom's niece Jennifer Widom is the Frederick Emmons Terman Dean of the Stanford School of Engineering and the Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science.