Lucy Wilson (October 19, 1888 – September 22, 1980) was an American physicist, known for her research on theories of vision, optics and X-ray spectroscopy.
Her younger brother had begun to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology two years after Lucy Wilson had entered Wellesley.
[4] When Wilson was about 2, her father died and her mother took the young Lucy and her baby brother to live with their grandparents in Bloomington.
[5] At Wellesley, Wilson took classes in multiple subjects including psychology from Eleanor Gamble and physics from Sarah Frances Whiting.
[4] In 1924, Wilson studied at Manchester University under William Henry Bragg, during which she remarked that there was often more opportunity for female physicists in the US as opposed to the UK.