Archie S. Wilson papers

Archie Spencer Wilson was born in Tekoa, Washington on January 19, 1921. He earned his B.S. in chemistry from Iowa State College in 1946, after working for three years on the Manhattan Project based at Iowa (1943-1946). He received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago under the director of Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Professor Henry Taube, in 1950 and 1951, respectively. For 20 years, Dr. Wilson worked for General Electric (1951-1971) as a research chemist. He joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota as professor of chemistry in 1971. Dr. Wilson hold four patents in the processing of nuclear fuels and has authored or co-authored over 50 technical papers. He retired from the University in 1989. Dr. Wilson passed away on June 7, 2000.