Awards & Winners

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

Date of Birth 14-February-1869
Place of Birth Midlothian
(United Kingdom, Scotland, United Kingdom, with Dependencies and Territories)
Nationality United Kingdom
Profession Physicist, Meteorologist, Chemist
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, CH, FRS was a Scottish physicist and meteorologist who received the Nobel Prize in physics for his invention of the cloud chamber.

Awards by Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

Check all the awards nominated and won by Charles Thomson Rees Wilson.

1935


Copley Medal
(For his work on the use of clouds in advancing our knowledge of atoms and their properties.)

1927


Nobel Prize in Physics
(for his method of making the paths of electrically charged particles visible by condensation of vapour)

1911


Hughes Medal
(For his work on nuclei in dust-free air, and his work on ions in gases and atmospheric electricity.)