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Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

1869 - 1959

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

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Thomson Rees Wilson is the 29th most popular physicist (up from 82nd in 2019), the 78th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 231st in 2019) and the 10th most popular British Physicist.

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson is most famous for his work in the field of X-ray crystallography.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson ranks 29 out of 851. Before him are William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Enrico Fermi, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Georg Ohm, Robert Hooke, and Maria Goeppert Mayer. After him are Owen Willans Richardson, Ibn al-Haytham, Heinrich Hertz, Lawrence Bragg, Christiaan Huygens, and James Clerk Maxwell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson ranks 4. Before him are Mahatma Gandhi, Henri Matisse, and Grigori Rasputin. After him are André Gide, Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, Maud of Wales, Neville Chamberlain, Gustaf Dalén, Frederick Trump, Nadezhda Krupskaya, and Fritz Pregl. Among people deceased in 1959, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson ranks 2. Before him is George Marshall. After him are Owen Willans Richardson, Stepan Bandera, Adolf Windaus, Frank Lloyd Wright, Cecil B. DeMille, Ante Pavelić, Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, Gérard Philipe, Bohuslav Martinů, and Billie Holiday.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson ranks 78 out of 8,785. Before him are Lord Byron (1788), D. H. Lawrence (1885), John Maynard Keynes (1883), Daniel Defoe (1660), Cecil Rhodes (1853), and Bertrand Russell (1872). After him are Harold Harefoot (1016), Owen Willans Richardson (1879), William Ewart Gladstone (1809), Empress Matilda (1102), Alfred Hitchcock (1899), and Anne, Princess Royal (1950).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson ranks 10. Before him are J. J. Thomson (1856), James Prescott Joule (1818), Edward Victor Appleton (1892), William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824), John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842), and Robert Hooke (1635). After him are Owen Willans Richardson (1879), James Clerk Maxwell (1831), William Gilbert (1544), Nevill Francis Mott (1905), David J. Thouless (1934), and Brian Josephson (1940).

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