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Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
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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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  1. Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (this page)February 14, 1869 – November 15, 1959
  2. Dmitri EgorovDecember 22, 1869 – September 10, 1931
  3. Élie CartanApril 9, 1869 – May 6, 1951
  4. Hans SpemannJune 27, 1869 – September 12, 1941
  5. Stanisław WojciechowskiMarch 15, 1869 – April 9, 1953
  6. Valdemar PoulsenNovember 23, 1869 – July 23, 1942

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