Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
Appearance
Charles Wilson | |
---|---|
Wilson in 1927 | |
Born | Charles Thomson Rees Wilson 14 Februar 1869 Midlothian, Scotland |
Dee'd | 15 November 1959 Edinburgh, Scotland | (aged 90)
Naitionality | Scots |
Alma mater | Varsity o Manchester Varsity o Cambridge |
Kent for | Clood chamber |
Awairds |
|
Scientific career | |
Fields | Pheesics |
Institutions | Varsity o Cambridge |
Academic advisors | J. J. Thomson |
Doctoral students | Cecil Frank Powell |
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, CH, FRS[1] (14 Februar 1869 – 15 November 1959) wis a Scots pheesicist an meteorologist who received the Nobel Prize in pheesics for his invention o the clood chamber.[2][3]
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Blackett, P. M. S. (1960). "Charles Thomson Rees Wilson 1869-1959". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. Royal Society. 6. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1960.0037.
- ↑ Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, Isaac Asimov, 2nd ed., Doubleday & C., Inc., ISBN 0-385-17771-2.
- ↑ "Charles Thomson Rees Wilsons biography". Archived frae the original on 3 August 2004. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
Categeries:
- 1869 births
- 1959 daiths
- 20t-century physicists
- Alumni o Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
- Alumni o the Varsity o Manchester
- Breetish Nobel laureates
- Fellaes o the Ryal Society
- Members o the Order o the Companions o Honour
- Nobel laureates in Pheesics
- Fowk frae Midlowden
- Recipients o the Copley Medal
- Scots chemists
- Scots Nobel laureates
- Scots physicists
- Ryal Medal winners
- Experimental pheesicists
- Fowk eddicatit at Bradford Grammar Schuil
- Aerosol scientists
- Academics o the Varsity o Cambridge
- Howard N. Potts Medal recipients