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Hugh Wilson ’65

Hugh Wilson ’65 has recently received the Helmholtz Award from the International Neural Network Society for his neural network studies of sensation and perception. A chemistry major while at Wesleyan, Wilson further pursued his education with a PhD in chemical physics at the University of Chicago and then spent more than 25 years as a professor in the Ophthalmology and Visual Science department at the University of Chicago, before moving in 2000 to York University in Toronto. A widely published researcher, Wilson is now associate director of the York Centre for Vision Research.
Hugh Wilson ’65 has recently received the Helmholtz Award from the International Neural Network Society for his neural network studies of sensation and perception. A chemistry major while at Wesleyan, Wilson further pursued his education with a PhD in chemical physics at the University of Chicago and then spent more than 25 years as a professor in the Ophthalmology and Visual Science department at the University of Chicago, before moving in 2000 to York University in Toronto. A widely published researcher, Wilson is now associate director of the York Centre for Vision Research.