Background
Wilson was born in Colonia Pacheco, Chihuahua (one of the Mormon colonies in Mexico).
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Grant Wilson
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He did his undergraduate work at Brigham Young University in 1953 and then attended and graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) with a Doctor of Philosophy in Physical Chemistry in 1957.
Career
While at Massachusetts Institute of Technology he began his career by developing one of the first computer-based Activity coefficient Equations. Known as the Wilson Equation, it is one of the most widely used equations in the field of industrial thermodynamics for the prediction of phase equilibria. Wilson has been a research scientist measuring and reporting physical properties and phase equilibria data for most of his career.
He joined Shell Research and Development in California upon graduating from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he then joined Air Products and later moved to PVT Incorporated. of Houston, Texas.
While there he performed a number of Research Projects for the Gas Processors Association. At this time he also did extensive work with cubic equations of state (EOS), he was one of the first to modify the alpha form of the Redlich-Kwong EOS to better represent pure component vapor pressures.
He next taught at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, from 1970 to 1978 while there he was a part of the on-campus research group, the Thermochemical Institute founded by professors James J. Christensen and Reed M. Izatt.
Wilson left Brigham Young University to create the company Wilco (now Wiltec) Research Company in 1977 which measured data for the Chemical Process Industries (Consumer price index).
The Wilson equation was published by Grant M. Wilson as "Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium. XI. A New Expression for the Excess Free Energy of Mixing" in the Journal of the American Chemical Society 86:127-130, 1964. Wilson died on September 10, 2012 in Orem, Utah.
Wilson"s hobby was hiking in the mountains.
His favorite climb was Mountain. Timpanogos.
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