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- 1896-1910 (Creation)
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6 linear feet
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Born 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.
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GB 0117 CW 1896-1910 Collection (fonds) 6 linear feet Wilson , Charles Thomson Rees , 1869-1959 , physicist
Born 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.
Laboratory notebooks and records of C T R Wilson.
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Special Libraries and Archives, Aberdeen University, holds working papers, photographs and journals relating to atmospheric physics, 1890-1959; Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge University, holds correspondence and papers relating to airships.
Description produced by the Royal Society and revised by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997. Created 8/11/2001, modified 30/04/2002, revised Aug 2002 Experiments Physics Research work Wilson , Charles Thomson Rees , 1869-1959 , physicist
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Laboratory notebooks and records of C T R Wilson.
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No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.
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- Latin
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Special Libraries and Archives, Aberdeen University, holds working papers, photographs and journals relating to atmospheric physics, 1890-1959; Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge University, holds correspondence and papers relating to airships.
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Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
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