IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0117 CW
Held at: Royal Society
Title: Wilson, Charles Thomson Rees (1869-1959)
Date(s): 1896-1910
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 6 linear feet
Name of creator(s): Wilson | Charles Thomson Rees | 1869-1959 | physicist
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
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.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Laboratory notebooks and records of C T R Wilson.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
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Open.
Conditions governing reproduction:
No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.
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Related material:
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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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Archivist's note: Description produced by the Royal Society and revised by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.
Date(s) of descriptions: Created 8/11/2001, modified 30/04/2002, revised Aug 2002