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Professor Wilson is cited for his decades of rigorous and exemplary work in the history of 18th- and 19th-century celestial mechanics, for his editorship and original contributions to Volumes 2A and 2B of the General History of Astronomy, and for the generations of students he taught and inspired through the reading and study of the works of Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler and Newton. Through it all, he has been a dedicated and selfless scholar, and serves as an example to us all
Curtis Wilson is a retired tutor of St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland. The college uses the title “tutor” for all of its faculty.