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Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
CH FRS
Wilson in 1927
Born
(1869-02-14)14 February 1869
Glencorse, Scotland
Died
15 November 1959(1959-11-15) (aged 90)
Carlops, Scotland
Alma mater
Owens College
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Known for
Cloud chamber
Atmospheric electricity
Awards
Royal Medal (1922)
Howard N. Potts Medal (1925)
FRS (1900)
Nobel Prize in Physics (1927)
Franklin Medal (1929)
Duddell Medal and Prize (1931)
Scientific career
Fields
Physics
Institutions
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Academic advisors
J. J. Thomson
Doctoral students
Cecil Frank Powell
Philip Dee
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, CH, FRS[1] (14 February 1869 – 15 November 1959) was a Scottish physicist and meteorologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of the cloud chamber.[2][3]
^Blackett, P. M. S. (1960). "Charles Thomson Rees Wilson 1869–1959". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 6: 269–295. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1960.0037. S2CID 73384198.
^Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, Isaac Asimov, 2nd ed., Doubleday & C., Inc., ISBN 0-385-17771-2.
^Charles Thomson Rees Wilson's biography
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