Wilson, Charles Thomas Rees, 1869-1959 (Scottish Physicist and Meteorologist)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 14 February 1869 - 15 November 1959
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Transcripts of a programme on the occasion of C.T.R. Wilson's 90th birthday, February 1959
File
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
'Wilson's Theory of Thunderstorms', c. 1920
File
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