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more general categories information about this item 10. Noble Prize 10. Noble Prize Physics (209) 11. Award Year 11. Award Year 1920s (54) 1927 (7) 12. Winner Type 12. Winner Type Person (904) 13. Gender 13. Gender Male (853) 14. Birth Year 14. Birth Year 1860s (52) 1869 (6) 15. Place of Birth 15. Place of Birth Europe (459) Europe, western (207) United Kingdom (101) Glencorse (1) 16. Death Year 16. Death Year 1950s (45) 1959 (5) 17. Place of Death 17. Place of Death Europe (331) Europe, western (182) United Kingdom (86) Carlops (1) 19. Given Name 19. Given Name A-D (182) C (45) 20. Family Name 20. Family Name S-Z (212) W (44) 21. Shared Given Name 21. Shared Given Name A-D (94) C (27) Charles (12) 22. Shared Family Name 22. Shared Family Name S-Z (21) W (8) Wilson (4) 23. Religion 23. Religion z-Missing value reason (465) Source data not available (465) 24. Age at Award Time 24. Age at Award Time 50 - 59 (231) 59 (20) 32. Occupations 32. Occupations Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations (601) Physical Scientists (333) Astronomers and Physicists (222) Physicists (206) 34. Citizens 34. Citizens Europe (450) Europe, western (223) United Kingdom (110) 37. Worked for College or University 37. Worked for College or University Europe (232) Europe, western (125) United Kingdom (64) Cambridge (19) University of Cambridge (18) 42. Affilliation with College or University 42. Affilliation with College or University Europe (535) Europe, western (390) United Kingdom (235) Cambridge (118) University of Cambridge (118) Alumni (69) Long-term academic staff (44) Manchester (25) University of Manchester (25) Alumni (9) 44. Memberships 44. Memberships R-T (460) R (448) Royal Society (294) 45. Other Awards 45. Other Awards C-D (404) C (272) Copley Medal (60) E-F (439) F (394) Fellow of the Royal Society (101) Franklin Medal (45) G-H (389) H (196) Howard N. Potts Medal (4) Hughes Medal (29) O-P (364) O (205) Order of the Companions of Honour (3) Q-Z (398) R (196) Royal Medal (50) complete name: Charles Thomson Rees Wilson nobel prize: physics award year: 1927 together with: Arthur Compton prize share: Prize share: 1/2 rational: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1927 was divided equally between Arthur Holly Compton "for his discovery of the effect named after him" and Charles Thomson Rees Wilson "for his method of making the paths of electrically charged particles visible by condensation of vapour." biography: Biography laureate facts: Facts laureate lecture: Lecture given name: Charles family name: Wilson occupation: physicist occupation: chemist occupation: university teacher occupation: meteorologist field of work: physics work location: Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom description: Charles Thomson Rees Wilson was a Scottish physicist and meteorologist who received the Nobel Prize in physics for his invention of the cloud chamber. image copyright: Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. image citation: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1927. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1927/summary/> date birth: 1869 date death: 1959 usual name: Charles Wilson
