Professor Emeritus
Contact Information
Email: rewilson@astro.ufl.edu
Office: 322 Bryant Space Science Center
Phone: 352-256-4016
Overview
Like Abraham Lincoln, I was born in a log cabin that I built with my own hands. My parents operated a photography shop, where I learned just enough optics to explain how to take pictures, as long as no one asked any hard questions. I took an early interest in several team sports but couldn’t play any of them so nothing was left but astronomy. Having developed strong aversions to everything trendy, I was guided naturally into binary star research, and particularly into novel developments that a core of about two persons, both living on this planet, find interesting. In my next life I plan to be trendy and athletic, and to save the whales.
Educational Background
- Ph.D., Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, 1963
Research
Variable Stars, HR Diagram Analysis, Eclipsing Binary Models and Analysis.
Areas of Expertise
- Stellar Models
- Stellar Structure & Evolution
- Close Binary Stars