Thomas D. Wilson

Thomas D. Wilson (born 18 January 1935) is a British researcher in information science and his research has focused on information management and information seeking behaviour. He has been contributing to the field since 1961, which was when he received his Fellowship from the British Library Association. He is the founder of the online journal for the information sciences, ''Information Research''. Dr. Wilson has created and revised a model of information behavior as well as the Nested Model. He has won a number of prestigious awards, the two most recent being the Award of Merit Association for Information Science and Technology in 2017 and the Jason Farradane Award in 2020.

Currently, he is Professor Emeritus at the University of Sheffield Information School and University of Borås, Sweden. Provided by Wikipedia