Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869-1959)

Awarded the Prize “for his method of making the paths of electrically charged particles visible by condensation of vapour.”

British physicist. Wilson was born in Glencorse near Edinburgh on February 14, 1869. He was educated at Owens College, Manchester Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge where he took his degree in 1892. In 1900 he was elected to a fellowship at his college spent the rest of his professional life at Cambridge, becoming Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy (1925-34). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1900. Wilson died in Carlops, Scotl on November 15, 1959.