Wilson, Charles Thomas Rees, 1869-1959 (Scottish Physicist and Meteorologist)
Dates
- Existence: 14 February 1869 - 15 November 1959
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
6 photographs taken at celebration of the 90th birthday of C.T.R. Wilson, February 1959
The material consists of 6 photographs taken at celebration of the 90th birthday of C.T.R. Wilson, dated 1959.
Letters and congratulations from C. T. R. Wilson, Ernest Rutherford and H. G. Lyons, 1926-1934
Letter from C.T.R. Wilson offering to propose Appleton for election to The Royal Society, dated 1926.
Congratulations from Rutherford on award of prize by Radio Engineers of U.S.A., dated 1929.
Letter of thanks from H.G. Lyons on work at Tromso and contributions to the Polar Year, dated 1934.
Transcripts of a programme on the occasion of C.T.R. Wilson's 90th birthday, February 1959
The material consists of a transcripts of a programme on the occasion of C.T.R. Wilson's 90th birthday, broadcast on the Scottish Home Service, February 1959. Edward Appleton contributed a tribute to Wilson on the programme but this is not included in folder.
'Wilson's Theory of Thunderstorms', c. 1920
The material consists of 5 pages of manuscript notes, probably taken c.1920 and with annotations added later in blue pencil. Also included is a sequence of manuscript notes by another, on the same subject, and a reprint of C.T.R. Wilson's Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Paper 'Investigations on lightning discharges and on the electric field of thunderstorms', 1920.
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Physics 2
- Birthdays 1
- Magnetic Storms 1
- Radio Broadcasting 1