Albert George Wilson

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**Asteroids discovered: 5**
1620 Geographos ^[1]	September 14, 1951
1915 Quetzálcoatl	March 9, 1953
1980 Tezcatlipoca ^[2]	June 19, 1950
10000 Myriostos	September 30, 1951
(118162) 1951 SX	September 29, 1951
^ with R. Minkowski ^ with Å. A. E. Wallenquist

Albert George Wilson (born July 28, 1918) is an American astronomer.

He was born in Houston, Texas. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Caltech in 1947; his thesis title was Axially Symmetric Thermal Stresses in a Semi-Infinite Solid.

In 1949 he accepted a job at Palomar Observatory. In 1953 he became assistant director of Lowell Observatory, and served as director from 1954 to 1957. He later worked at Rand Corporation and other private sector jobs. In 1962 he became founding editor of the astronomical magazine Icarus.

He discovered a number of asteroids, and also co-discovered the periodic comet 107P/Wilson-Harrington.