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Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
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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science · British meteorologist and physicist (1869–1959) · physicist · meteorologist · university teacher · chemist · scholar · also Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, C. T. R. Wilson, Professor C. T. R. Wilson, C T R Wilson, Wilson, C. T.R., C. Wilson
Born 14 February 1869 · Died 15 November 1959 · Q162900
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2020· 2 entries
Published “SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python” in Nature Methods — cited 36,804 times.
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Published “Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” in The Lancet — cited 16,051 times.
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2018· 1 entry
Published “PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation” in Annals of Internal Medicine — cited 36,667 times.
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2015· 1 entry
Published “A global reference for human genetic variation” in Nature — cited 17,839 times.
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2012· 2 entries
The Royal Society of Edinburgh held a meeting in honour of Wilson, the "Great Scottish Physicist
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Published “Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data” in Bioinformatics — cited 18,009 times.
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2001· 1 entry
Published “Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome” in Nature — cited 18,636 times.
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1996· 1 entry
A blue plaque in Wilson's honour was installed in a specially built cairn at Flotterstone, close to his birthplace at Crosshouse Farm
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1959· 1 entry
Died 1959-11-15.
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1935· 1 entry
Won Copley Medal (1935).
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1931· 1 entry
Won Dennis Gabor Medal and Prize (1931).
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1929· 1 entry
Won Franklin Medal (1929).
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1927· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for his method of making the paths of electrically charged particles visible by condensation of vapour.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1927).
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1925· 1 entry
Won Howard N. Potts Medal (1925).
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1924· 1 entry
65 years before their official discovery
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1922· 1 entry
Won Royal Medal (1922).
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1918· 1 entry
And Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy in 1925
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1911· 1 entry
Won Hughes Medal (1911).
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1908· 1 entry
Wilson married Jessie Fraser, the daughter of a minister from Glasgow
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1906· 1 entry
Wilson hypothesised that cosmic radiation generates the ions causing condensation without apparent reasons
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1900· 1 entry
Wilson became a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and was appointed University Lecturer and Demonstrator
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1895· 1 entry
Wilson discovered that at a large enough expansion ratio, supersaturated water vapour condensates even without dust which he removed by previous condensations, contrary to the previous research by John Aitken
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1894· 1 entry
Worked for some time at the observatory on Ben Nevis, where he made observations of cloud formation
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1893· 1 entry
Began to study clouds and their properties
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1892· 1 entry
Received First Class Honours in both parts of the Natural Sciences Tripos
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1873· 1 entry
Wilson moved with his family to Manchester, England
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1869· 1 entry
Born 1869-02-14.
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