“When I entered graduate school I had carried out the instructions given to me by my father and had knocked on both Murray Gell-Mann's and Feynman's doors and asked them what they were currently doing. Murray wrote down the partition function for the three-dimensional Ising model and said it would be nice if I could solve it (at least that is how I remember the conversation). Feynman's answer was 'nothing'.”
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Kenneth G. Wilson
Kenneth G. Wilson, born on June 8, 1936 and died on June 15, 2013, was a renowned physicist from the United States. He made significant contributions to statistical physics and condensed matter physics, particularly in the study of phase transitions and critical phenomena. Wilson was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1982 for his outstanding contributions to theoretical physics. more
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