| C. T. R. Wilson  AKA Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
Born: 14-Feb-1869
Birthplace: Glencorse, Midlothian, Scotland
Died: 15-Nov-1959
Location of death: Carlops, Peeblesshire, Scotland
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: Scotland
Executive summary: Invented the Wilson cloud chamber Father: John Wilson (farmer, d. 1873)
Mother: Annie Clerk Harper
Wife: Jessie Fraser (m. 1908, one son, two daughters)
University: Owen's College, University of Manchester
University: Cambridge University (1892)
Professor: Jacksonian Professor of Natural History, Cambridge University (1925-)
Nobel Prize for Physics 1927 (with Arthur H. Compton)
Hughes Medal 1911
Royal Medal 1922
Copley Medal 1935
Royal Society 1900
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