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Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
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Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

Scientist · born February 14, 1869 · died 1959

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Charles Thomson Rees Wilson was a British meteorologist and physicist who shared the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics with Arthur Compton for his invention of the cloud chamber.

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  1. ~42Received the Hughes Medal1911
  2. ~53Received the Royal Medal1922
  3. ~58Received the Nobel Prize in Physics1927
  4. ~66Received the Copley Medal1935

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