Professor Thomas E Wilson        

Office: Science 153

Laboratory: Terahertz Laser / Phonon Spectroscopy Laboratory - Science 154

Telephone: 304.696.2752

email: wilsont@marshall.edu

Thomas E Wilson is a tenured Full Professor of Physics and Physical Sciences at Marshall University. He maintains a rigorous level of research activity in both condensed-matter and laser physics. He enjoys teaching many of the core courses required for the physics major, including PHY211-213 Principles of Physics (the calculus-based introductory sequence), PHY330 Classical Dynamics, PHY308 Statistical Thermodynamics, PHY445 Mathematical Methods of Physics, PHY442 Quantum Mechanics, and PHY280 - Introduction to LabView. He particularly likes to help students appreciate the use of mathematics in physics.

He has received the Marshall University Charles E. Hedrick Outstanding Faculty Award in 2002-2003, and a Max Planck Institute Research Fellowship during a sabbatical year at the High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Grenoble, France during 2001-2002. During his career, he has received one Department of Energy Space Defense Initiative ("Star Wars") grant, two US Army Research Office grants, and two NSF awards, including an active one from Electrical and Communications Systems. He has published in many of peer-reviewed physics journals, including - Measurement Science and Technology, Journal of Low Temperature Physics, Physical Review B, Applied Physics Letters, Solid State Communications, Journal of the Optical Society of America B, and the International Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves, and, in a collaboration with the American Foundation for the Blind TECH, the Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology. He has also been a Senior Laser Scientist at the Submillimeter Technology Laboratory of the University of Lowell, an Assistant Professor of Physics at Connecticut College, a Senior Process Engineer for Intel Corporation, and a Marketing Physicist for Varian Medical Group.

Dr. Wilson is married and has two children. In his spare time, he enjoys running (he finished the Huntington marathon in 2004) and cycling, and appreciates nearly all things French - including their universal health care (rated #1 in the world by WHO), high-speed electric trains, clean electricity from nuclear power, film (including this dance scene from Jean Luc-Goddard's 1964 "Band of Outsiders" (jazz score by Michel Legrand)), cuisine, wine, outdoor cafes, and art. He is learning to play classical (Chopin) and ragtime (Joplin) piano.