John Todd Wilson (March 7, 1914 – August 4, 1990) served as president of the University of Chicago from 1975 to 1978.
After wartime service in the US Naval Reserve he earned a PhD in psychology from Stanford University in 1948.
[2] After a year working jointly for the American Psychological Association and for George Washington University, he joined the Office of Naval Research and then the newly created National Science Foundation, serving from 1955 to 1961 as assistant director of its Biological and Medical Sciences Division.
In 1963 he moved back to the National Science Foundation as deputy director, returning to the University of Chicago in 1968 as vice-president and dean of faculties.
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