Scientists and Academics
- John Wilson (mathematician) (1741–1793), English mathematician
- John Wilson (industrial chemist) 1890–1976 (1890–1976), British chemist
- John Wilson (Scottish academic), professor of public policy and management at Glasgow Caledonian University
- John A. Wilson (Egyptologist) (1899–1976), American Egyptologist
- John Tuzo Wilson (1908–1993), Canadian geophysicist
- John T. Wilson (1914–1990), president of the University of Chicago, 1975–1978
- John Wilson Jr. (professor), professor of English in Japan
- John S. Wilson (economist), economist at the World Bank
- John Long Wilson (1914–2001), medical professor and university administrator
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“Maybe we were the blind mechanics of disaster, but you don’t pin the guilt on the scientists that easily. You might as well pin it on M motherhood.... Every man who ever worked on this thing told you what would happen. The scientists signed petition after petition, but nobody listened. There was a choice. It was build the bombs and use them, or risk that the United States and the Soviet Union and the rest of us would find some way to go on living.”
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