[1] He founded the company Wilco (now Wiltec) in 1977 to research, measure, commercialize, and publish thermophysical property data for numerous chemical mixtures of interest to the industry.
[2] The Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data published a posthumous issue in honor of Wilson in April 2014 in recognition of his contributions to the field.
He did his undergraduate work at BYU in 1953 and then attended and graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a PhD in physical chemistry in 1957.
Wilson has been a research scientist measuring and reporting physical properties and phase equilibria data for most of his career.
[6] He next taught at BYU in Provo, Utah, from 1970 to 1978 while there he was a part of the on-campus research group, the Thermochemical Institute founded by Profs.