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Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
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Person

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

1869 – 1959 · aged 90

Scottish physicist and meteorologist (1869-1959)

Born
14 Feb 1869 · Glencorse
Died
15 Nov 1959 · Carlops
Part ofUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland1731 – 1942

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 103 years
  1. 14 Feb 1869BornBorn in Glencorse
  2. 1911AwardHughes Medal
  3. 1922AwardRoyal Medal
  4. 1925AwardHoward N. Potts Medal
  5. 1927AwardNobel Prize in Physics
  6. 1929AwardFranklin Medal
  7. 1931AwardDennis Gabor Medal and Prize
  8. 1935AwardCopley Medal
  9. 15 Nov 1959DiedDied in Carlops

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1869 – 1959).

  1. 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
  2. 18961896 Summer Olympics
  3. 1898Spanish–American War
  4. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  5. 1914 – 1918World War I
  6. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  7. 1917Balfour Declaration
  8. 1917February Revolution
  9. 1917October Revolution
  10. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  11. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  12. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  13. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  14. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  15. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  16. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  17. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  18. 1938Munich Agreement
  19. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  20. 1939 – 1945World War II
  21. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  22. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  23. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  24. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  25. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  26. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  27. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  28. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  29. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  30. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  31. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  32. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  33. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  34. 1956Suez Crisis
  35. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  36. 1959Antarctic Treaty System

Biography

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (14 February 1869 – 15 November 1959) was a British meteorologist and physicist who shared the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics with Arthur Compton for his invention of the cloud chamber.

Text from the Wikipedia article C. T. R. Wilson, CC BY-SA 4.0

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