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.

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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