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    related to Charles Thomson Rees Wilson at Wikimedia Commons C.T.R. Wilson on Nobelprize.org The Papers of C. T. R. Wilson held at Churchill Archives Centre...
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    Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was the 28th president of the United States, serving from 1913 to 1921. He was the only Democrat...
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    several million events per year. In the 1920s, the Scottish physicist C.T.R. Wilson predicted that electrical breakdown should occur in the atmosphere high...
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    (1925), G. Hertz (1925) - J. Perrin (1926) - A. H. Compton (1927), C. T. R. Wilson (1927), H. Wieland (1927) - O. Richardson (1928) - L. de Broglie (1929)...
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    Intelligence Agency from July 1999 to July 2002. Vice Admiral Thomas R. Wilson, USN was the 13th Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Other flag...
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    bachelor's degree he worked at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, under C.T.R. Wilson and Lord Rutherford, conducting research into condensation phenomena...
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    Russell Carrington Wilson (born November 29, 1988) is an American professional football quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football...
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    deliberating over its R&B tracks and incorporating them into their musical lexicon. Carl remarked that by the age of 10, Wilson "could play great boogie-woogie...
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    A cloud chamber, also known as a Wilson chamber, is a particle detector used for visualizing the passage of ionizing radiation. A cloud chamber consists...
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    by John Sealy Townsend, and the development of the cloud chamber by C.T.R. Wilson. Ernest Rutherford became Director of the Cavendish Laboratory in 1919...
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    and Crime By James Girard Noble Gases By Jens Thomas "Nobelprize.org: C.T.R. Wilson Biography". Retrieved 15 June 2010. The world of the atom Henry Abraham...
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    of X-rays by a bolt of lightning was predicted as early as 1925 by C.T.R. Wilson, but no evidence was found until 2001/2002, when researchers at the...
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    David Clive Wilson, Baron Wilson of Tillyorn, KT, GCMG, FRSE (Chinese: 衛奕信, born 14 February 1935) is a retired British administrator, diplomat and Sinologist...
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    James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx KG OBE PC FRS FSS (11 March 1916 – 24 May 1995) was a British statesman and politician who twice served as...
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    period is still important for understanding Scottish mountain weather. C. T. R. Wilson was inspired to invent the cloud chamber after a period spent working...
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  • Bibcode:2013PhP....15....3S. doi:10.1007/s00016-012-0097-6. ISSN 1422-6960. C.T.R. Wilson, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1927 for his invention of the...
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  • 't Hooft loops, which are magnetic duals to Wilson loops, and Polyakov loops, which are the thermal version of Wilson loops. To properly define Wilson...
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    C. T. Wilson (born February 20, 1972) is an American politician and attorney who has represented District 28 in the Maryland House of Delegates since 2011...
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    and balloting continued. The Wilson campaign picked up delegates by promising the vice presidency to Governor Thomas R. Marshall of Indiana, and several...
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    charge is maintained were developed mainly in the 20th century, with CTR Wilson playing an important part. Current research on atmospheric electricity...
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    to developing countries. Wilson is a staunch advocate of a federal prohibition of online poker. In 2006, he co-sponsored H.R. 4411, the Goodlatte-Leach...
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  • Charles Wilson (Scottish architect) (1810–1861), Scottish architect Charles C. Wilson (architect) (1864–1933), American architect Charles J. A. Wilson (1880-1965)...
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    Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) was the prominent American scholar who served as president of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, as governor of New Jersey...
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    discusses Ellen Wilson with particular attention to her painting "Ellen Wilson". C-SPAN. First Ladies: Influence & Image. "Ellen Louise Axson Wilson historical...
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  • College Cambridge (1964), supervised by Dr T.W. Wormell who had in turn been supervised by Prof C.T.R. Wilson. His research is principally in solar-terrestrial...
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    Wilson's disease (also called Hepatolenticular degeneration) is a genetic disorder characterized by the excess build-up of copper in the body. Symptoms...
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  • 1972–1975 W. R. Wilson (c. 1849–1900), an Australian businessman with extensive interests in mining and a racehorse owner and breeder William Wilson, businessman...
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    Donald Glen Wilson (born September 10, 1954), nicknamed "The Dragon", is an American martial artist, former professional kickboxer, and actor. An 11-time...
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    Woodrow Wilson as president and Thomas R. Marshall as vice president. Chief Justice Edward D. White administered the presidential oath of office to Wilson. Crowds...
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    Wilson Pickett (March 18, 1941 – January 19, 2006) was an American singer and songwriter. A major figure in the development of soul music, Pickett recorded...
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