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Wilson, Charles Thomas Rees, 1869-1959 (Scottish Physicist and Meteorologist)

 Person

Staff Only

Dates

  • Existence: 14 February 1869 - 15 November 1959

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

6 photographs taken at celebration of the 90th birthday of C.T.R. Wilson, February 1959

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Identifier: Coll-37/H.24
Scope and Contents

The material consists of 6 photographs taken at celebration of the 90th birthday of C.T.R. Wilson, dated 1959.

Dates: February 1959
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Non-print material / Photographs of Edward Appleton, colleagues and friends

Letters and congratulations from C. T. R. Wilson, Ernest Rutherford and H. G. Lyons, 1926-1934

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Identifier: Coll-37/A.6
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1926-1934
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Biographical and personal / Career, honours and awards

Professor Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, c mid-20th century

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1716/1/20
Scope and Contents

Glass slide showing a portrait of Charles Thomas Rees Wilson (photograph).

Dates: c mid-20th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Slides of Professor Max Born / Portraits of scientists

Transcripts of a programme on the occasion of C.T.R. Wilson's 90th birthday, February 1959

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Identifier: Coll-37/D.57
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: February 1959
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Lectures, speeches, publications

'Wilson's Theory of Thunderstorms', c. 1920

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.192
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: c. 1920
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / Magnetic Storms / Notes and Drafts

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