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Jean Wilson, a pioneer in prostate disease research, died on June 13 at the age of 88, according to an announcement from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center where he worked for more than 60 years before retiring as professor emeritus of internal medicine in 2011. No cause of death was given.
Wilson was born in northern Texas in 1932, where his love of science was fostered at an early age by his parents. “When I was 11, I was given a chemistry set for Christmas; chemistry sets in those days were both more fun and more dangerous than they are now,” Wilson recalled in a 2012 interview for The Journal of Clinical Investigation (JCI), where he served as editor-in-chief from 1972 to 1979. “My mother was afraid that I would set the house on fire, so my father built a small laboratory in our backyard ...
