Wilma Olson

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Wilma K. Olson
Alma mater	Stanford University (Ph.D.) University of Delaware (B.S.)
Scientific career
Institutions	Rutgers University
Thesis	The Configurational Statistics of Polynucleotide Chains  (1971)
Doctoral advisor	Paul J. Flory

Wilma K. Olson (born c. 1945) is the Mary I. Bunting professor at the Rutgers Center for Quantitative Biology (CQB) (formerly known as BioMaPS institute for Quantitative Biology) ^[1] at Rutgers University. Olson has her own research group ^[2] on the New Brunswick campus. Although she is a polymer chemist by training, her research aims to understand the influence of chemical architecture on the conformation, properties, and interactions of nucleic acids.