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Name: Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
Birth Date: February 14, 1869
Death Date: November 15, 1959
Place of Birth: Glencorse, Scotland
Place of Death: Carlops, Scotland
Nationality: Scottish
Gender: Male
Occupations: physicist

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Biography of Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
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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. He received his first undergraduate training at Owens...
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Biography of Charles Thomas Rees Wilson
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Wilson was born in Glencorse, Scotland, on February 14, 1869. However, his family moved to Manchester in 1873 when his father died. Wilson entered Owens College in Manchester at the age of fifteen and graduated with a bachelor of science degree in...
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Biography of C. T. R. Wilson
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A Scottish physicist, C. T. R. Wilson invented the cloud or expansion chamber, which enabled physicists to track the paths of individual atoms and electrons. It was described by the physicist W. B. Lewis as being "to the atomic physicist what the...


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Charles Thomson Rees Wilson CH (February 14, 1869 – November 15, 1959) was a Scottish physicist. He was born in the parish of Glencorse, Midlothian to a farmer, John Wilson, and his mother Annie Clerk Harper. After his father died in 1873, his...


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The Independent - London
PROFESSOR CHARLES REES ; Groundbreaking organic chemist
12/12/2006: 1,012 words, approx. 3 pages
Charles Rees was one of the most eminent organic chemists of his generation. He specialised in the area of heterocyclic chemistry - the study of rings made up of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and sulphur atoms - a subject that touches all of our daily...
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The Washington Post
Terrorism Investigator Charles Thomson
07/12/2005: 672 words, approx. 2 pages
Charles Renfrew Thomson, 61, a special agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms who helped apprehend the people who bombed the World Trade Center in 1993, died of a heart attack July 3 at his home in Alexandria. From 1989 to...
 


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