Charles Thomson Rees Wilson - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1927
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Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1927
for his method of making the paths of electrically charged particles visible by condensation of vapour
Together with: Arthur Holly Compton
Citizenship
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland United Kingdom United Kingdom
Languages
English
date of birth
2/14/1869
place of birth
Glencorse
date of death
11/15/1959
place of death
Carlops
Lived
90 years
doctoral student
  • Cecil Frank Powell
employer
  • Cavendish Laboratory
  • University of Cambridge
educated at
  • University of Manchester
  • Sidney Sussex College
  • University of Cambridge
member of
  • Royal Society of London
field of work
  • physics
  • meteorology
occupation
  • physicist
  • chemist
  • scholar
  • university teacher
  • meteorologist
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