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RefNoCW
Previous numbersMS 659, MS 660, MS 661, MS 662
LevelFonds
TitlePapers of Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
CreatorWilson, Charles Thomson Rees (1869-1959) Physicist
Date1896-1956
DescriptionLaboratory notebooks and records
LanguageEnglish
Extent6 linear feet
AccessStatusOpen
CopyrightRoyal Society
AdminHistoryBorn in Glencorse, Midlothian, Scotland; educated at Greenheyes Collegiate School Manchester; BSc Owens College Manchester; MA Cantab; BSc. Vict; Fellow, Sidney Sussex College 1900; University Reader in Electric Meteorology, Cambridge; Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy, Cambridge, 1925-1934; elected FRS 1900; Vice President of the Royal Society 1928-1929; received Hughes Medal 1911; Royal Medal 1922; Copley Medal 1935; Nobel Prize (Chemistry) 1927;
RelatedMaterialSpecial Libraries and Archives, Aberdeen University, working papers, photographs and journals relating to atmospheric physics 1890-1959; Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge University, correspondence and papers relating to airships. The Archives and Business Records Centre, University of Glasgow, C T R Wilson lecture notes, notebooks and publications
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CodePersonNameDates
NA7953Wilson; Charles Thomson Rees (1869 - 1959); physicist1869 - 1959
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