Portrait of Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
Date
c.1940s
Sitter
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869 - 1959, British) , Physicist, Physicist
Creator
Walter Stoneman (1876 - 1958, British) , Photographer
Creator - Organisation
J. Russell & Sons, Photographer
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Dimensions
height (print): 145mm
width (print): 95mm
width (print): 95mm
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Description
Half-length portrait of Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, in left profile as viewed, dressed in a grey suit and tie, and a white shirt.
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869-1959), British physicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1900 and served as its Vice President between 1928-1929. He was awarded the Society’s Hughes Medal, 1911, Royal Medal, 1922, Copley Medal, 1925, and was recipient of the Nobel Prize (Physics) in 1927 for ‘his method of making paths of electrically charged particles visible by condensation of vapour’.
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869-1959), British physicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1900 and served as its Vice President between 1928-1929. He was awarded the Society’s Hughes Medal, 1911, Royal Medal, 1922, Copley Medal, 1925, and was recipient of the Nobel Prize (Physics) in 1927 for ‘his method of making paths of electrically charged particles visible by condensation of vapour’.
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