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Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, CH, FRS (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.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1927 was divided equally between Arthur Holly Compton "for his discovery of the effect named after him" and Charles Thomson Rees Wilson "for his method of making the paths of electrically charged particles visible by condensation of vapour"
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson. Born: Feb. 14, 1869, Glencorse, Midlothian, Scot. Died: Nov. 15, 1959, Carlops, Peeblesshire (aged 90) Awards And Honors: Copley Medal (1935) Nobel Prize (1927) Inventions: Wilson cloud chamber. Subjects Of Study: cloud. lightning. radiation. thunderstorm.
Dec 7, 2012 · The only Scottish-born physicist ever to have won the Nobel Prize for Physics, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson was inspired by the cloud formations he had witnessed on Ben Nevis.
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1927. Born: 14 February 1869, Glencorse, Scotland. Died: 15 November 1959, Carlops, Scotland. Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
CHARLES THOMSON REES WILSON. 1869-1959. Charles Thomson Rees Wilson was born on 14 February 1869 at the farmhouse of Crosshouse near Glencorse in the Pentland Hills near Edin burgh. He was the youngest of eight children by the two marriages of his father John Wilson, a very progressive sheep farmer, whose family had farmed in the neighbourhood ...
British physicist, who was awarded a share in the 1927 Nobel Prize for Physics for his invention of the cloud chamber. The son of a Scottish sheep farmer, Wilson was educated at Owens College, Manchester, and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
In 1927 Charles Thomson Rees Wilson was the joint winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics. He retired a few years later and returned to live in Scotland. Birth in 1869. Charles...
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson CH (February 14, 1869 – November 15, 1959) was a Scottish meteorologist and physicist who developed the cloud chamber for visualizing the tracks of electrically charged particles such as the electron.
May 21, 2018 · The Scottish physicist Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869-1959) was the inventor and developer of the Wilson cloud chamber. Charles Wilson was born on Feb. 14, 1869, in Glencorse near Edinburgh.
