Papers of C.T.R. Wilson c 1890 - 1959

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Papers of C.T.R. Wilson c 1890 - 1959

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University of Aberdeen

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Wilson, Charles Thomson Rees, 1869-

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C. T. R Wilson was educated at Owens College, Manchester and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, Fellow of Sidney Sussex College. University reader in electric meteorology, Cambridge. Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy, Cambridge. F. R. S. 1900. Royal Medal 1922. Hughes Medal 1911. Copley Medal 1935. C. H. 1937. Nobel Laureate Physics 1927. From the description of Laboratory records and notebooks, ca. 1895-ca. 1940. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81866670 ...

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Charles Thomas Rees Wilson, 1869-1959

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Charles Thomas Rees Wilson is the only Scot to have won a Nobel Prize in Physics. Awarded for his work on the Wilson cloud chamber, which made the paths of electrically charged particles visible by condensation of vapour, he shared the 1927 prize with Arthur Holly Compton (1892 - 1962), the American physicist who discovered Compton recoil electrons, and used Wilson's chamber to prove the existence of the Compton effect. In 1924 he was awarded an honorary LL D from the University of ...