Raymond Neil Wilson

Raymond Neil Wilson (born March 23, 1928, Sutton Coldfield, England—died March 16, 2018, Rohrbach, Germany) was a British physicist who pioneered the field of active optics. Wilson received a bachelor’s degree in physics from Birmingham University. He received a doctoral degree from Imperial College in London. In 1961 he joined the German optical firm Carl Zeiss in Oberkochen and became head of the design department for telescopes. In 1972 he joined the European Southern Observatory...