[2] His Ph.D. thesis entitled Some problems in meson theory was supervised by Roland Hamilton Good (1923–2010),[4] who was elected in 1958 a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS).
[3] In the first two decades of his career he applied his expertise in computational physics to classified projects involving nuclear weapons.
In 2007 he received the Hans A. Bethe Prize with citation: Wilson was an enthusiastic rock climber and mountaineer.
In 1947 he met his future wife Demetria "Dee' Corombos (1922–2005) on a rock climbing expedition in Wyoming's Wind River Range,[6] and their love of mountains was "one of their strongest bonds.
They were members of the Bay Area chapter of the Sierra Club's rock-climbing section and regularly went on local climbs.