Wilson, Charles Thomson Rees (1869-1959)
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0117 CW |
Held at | : Royal Society Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://royalsociety.org/collections/ › |
Full 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 & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Open.
Conditions governing reproduction:
No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.
Finding aids:
Archival Information
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Allied Materials
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.
Publication note:
Description Notes
Archivist's note:
Description produced by the Royal Society and revised by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.
Rules or conventions:
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.
Date(s) of descriptions:
Created 8/11/2001, modified 30/04/2002, revised Aug 2002
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