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	Charles Wilson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charles Wilson (physicist) (Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, 1869-1959) was a 19th Century physicist.
		Charles Wilson (Montreal mayor) was the first elected mayor of Montreal in the 19th century.
		Charles E. Wilson - ("Electric Charlie") was the CEO of General Electric and the head of the Office of Defense Mobilization under President Truman.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Wilson (202 words)

	Charles Thomson Rees Wilson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (February 14, 1869 – November 15, 1959) was a Scottish physicist.
		He was born in the parish of Glencorse, Midlothian to a farmer, John Wilson, and his mother Annie Clerk Harper.
		The Wilson crater on the Moon is co-named for him, Alexander Wilson and Ralph Elmer Wilson.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Wilson_(physicist) (268 words)

	Cloud chamber - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869-1959), a Scottish physicist, is credited with inventing the cloud chamber in 1900.
		In Wilson's original cloud chamber the air inside the sealed device was saturated with water vapor, then a diaphragm is used to expand the air inside the chamber (adiabatic expansion).
		Wilson, along with Arthur Compton, received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1927 for his work on the cloud chamber.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cloud_chamber (376 words)

	Charles T. R. Wilson
		Charles T.R. Wilson was the eighth child of a sheep farmer at Glencorse in the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh.
		Charles was sent to school by his older brothers, but no science was taught.
		This was Charles T R Wilsons greatest achievement, winning him the Nobel prize for Physics in 1927.
	www.visitaberfeldy.com /charles-wilson.htm (145 words)

	Wilson, Allan Charles -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Wilson used innovative molecular techniques to set forth two important evolutionist theories while serving as professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of California at Berkeley, where he taught from 1964 to 1991.
		Wilson, C.T.R. Scottish physicist who, with Arthur H. Compton, received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1927 for his invention of the Wilson cloud chamber, which became widely used in the study of radioactivity, X rays, cosmic rays, and other nuclear phenomena.
		Wilson was born to Frank and Minnie Harden Wilson on April 30, 1899, in Mayfield, Ky. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and was a founder of the Chicago Art League in 1925.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9314229?tocId=9314229 (855 words)

	Charles Thomson Rees Wilson Biography / Biography of Charles Thomson Rees Wilson Biography Biography
		The Scottish physicist Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869-1959) was the inventor and developer of the Wilson cloud chamber.
		Charles Wilson was born on Feb. 14, 1869, in Glencorse near Edinburgh.
		In the beginning of 1895 Wilson concluded that even after the removal of all dust particles, droplets still appeared whenever a volume of moist air was suddenly expanded.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-charles-thomson-rees-wilson (659 words)

	Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Scottish physicist who, with Arthur H. Compton, received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1927 for his invention of the Wilson cloud chamber, which became widely used in the study of radioactivity, X rays, cosmic rays, and other nuclear phenomena.
		Wilson noted that when he used dust-free air the air remained supersaturated and that clouds did not form until the degree of supersaturation reached a certain critical point.
		From 1916 Wilson became involved in the study of lightning, and in 1925 he was appointed Jacksonian professor of natural history at the University of Cambridge.
	www.nobel-winners.com /Physics/charles_thomson_rees_wilson.html (316 words)

	Charles Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Charles Wilson (Montrealmayor) was the first elected mayor of Montreal in the 19th century
		Charles E. Wilson - ("Engine Charlie") was the head of General Motors and the United States Secretary of Defense from 1953 - 57 under President Eisenhower.
		Charles E. Wilson - ("Electric Charlie") was the CEO of General Electric and the head of the Office of Defense Mobilizationunder President Truman.
	www.therfcc.org /charles-wilson-155422.html (157 words)

	Charles Wilson -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Charles Wilson (Montreal mayor) was the first elected mayor of (A city in southern Quebec province on the Saint Lawrence River; the largest city in Quebec and 2nd largest in Canada; the 2nd largest French-speaking city in the world) Montreal in the 19th century
		Charlie Wilson (train robber) was a member of the gang that performed the (Click link for more info and facts about Great train robbery) Great train robbery in 1963.
		Charlie Wilson (musician), (An American whose ancestors were born in Africa) African-American (Someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession)) musician of the (Click link for more info and facts about Gap Band) Gap Band.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/C/Ch/Charles_Wilson.htm (202 words)

	Cornell News: Robert Wilson obituary
		Wilson took a leave of absence from the Cornell faculty in 1967 to assume directorship of the National Accelerator Laboratory, where what was to be the highest-energy particle accelerator was under construction in Batavia, Ill. Under Wilson's leadership, the four-mile-circumference, 400 GeV (400 billion electron volt) machine was completed on time and under budget.
		Wilson was born March 4, 1914, in Frontier, Wyo., and he later recalled a simpler time when physicists did not know the scores of subatomic particles that his machines would reveal, saying: "We had only electrons and protons, and you could put those together into atoms in various ways and make the whole universe.
		Wilson is survived by his wife of 59 years, the former Jane Inez Scheyer; three sons, Daniel R. Wilson of Indianapolis, Jonathan H. Wilson of Columbus, Ind., and Rand E. Wilson of Boston; four grandchildren; and a sister, Mary Jane Greenhill of Palos Verdes Estates, Calif.
	www.news.cornell.edu /releases/Jan00/RRWilson_obit.hrs.html (991 words)

	ScienceNOW: Creating Clouds in the Lab@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		On this day in 1869, Scottish physicist Charles Wilson, inventor of the Wilson Cloud Chamber, was born.
		Wilson attempted to re-create in his laboratory the wondrous early-morning cloud effects seen in the Scottish Highlands.
		He found that charged atoms or ions were needed as nuclei for the condensation of water droplets, overturning the notion that droplets formed around dust...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:28870199&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (146 words)

	Ockham's Razor - 24/05/1998: Lack of adequate pysical science funding in Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Wilson was to contribute in two apparently unrelated areas which were destined to become intertwined.
		Those two strands of Wilson's work were intertwined because it was eventually understood that the conductivity of the air was due to energetic elementary particles passing through it, leaving a trail of liberated electrons which could carry the tiny electric currents which were observed.
		Wilson was the reserved researcher who got on with the job, mainly on his own, in something of an ivory tower.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/science/ockham/stories/s10991.htm (2329 words)

	BBC - History - Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869 - 1959) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Taught no science at school, Wilson's interest sprung from the microscope he was given when he was thirteen.
		An avid climber, in 1894 he worked briefly at the summit observatory on Ben Nevis and was amazed by the optical effects caused by the interaction of sunlight and cloud.
		In 1912, following Rutherford's deduction of atomic structure, Wilson realised that he could view radioactive particles by photographing the drops condensed on the ions in the track.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/wilson_charles_thomson_rees.shtml (523 words)

	Charles Glover Barkla - Biography
		Charles Glover Barkla was born on June 7, 1877 at Widnes, Lancashire, England, where his father, J.M. Barkla, was Secretary to the Atlas Chemical Company.
		From 1905 to 1909 he was successively demonstrator, assistant lecturer in physics and special lecturer in advanced electricity at the University, and in 1909 he succeeded H. Wilson as Wheatstone Professor of Physics in the University of London.
		Charles Glover Barkla married Mary Esther, the eldest daughter of John T. Cowell of Douglas, Receiver-General of the Isle of Man, in 1907.
	nobelprize.org /physics/laureates/1917/barkla-bio.html (546 words)

	Wilson chamber
		The cloud chamber was invented by C.T.R Wilson (18691959, Scottisch physicist), as a result of his interest in meteorological phenomena on the mountain of Ben Nevis, Scotland, in 1894.
		The dramatic quality of the pictures obtainable with the Wilson cloud chamber allowed almost every nuclear phenomena to be visualized by this technique in the half century following the invention.
		The device is basically an expansion chamber, and as the chamber expands, it causes condensation of vapour into drops along the path of an ionizing particle passing through the gas.
	www.amershamhealth.com /medcyclopaedia/volume%20I/WILSON%20CHAMBER.ASP (389 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Charles Wilson Peale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Peale, Charles Willson (1741-1827), American painter, who was the most prominent portraitist of the Federal period (late 18th century to early 19th...
		Wilson, Charles Thomson Rees (1869-1959), Scottish physicist and Nobel laureate.
		Wilson invented the cloud chamber (Particle Detectors), which gave...
	encarta.msn.com /Charles_Wilson_Peale.html (115 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Wilson Charles Thomson Rees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Wilson, Charles Thomson Rees (1869-1959), Scottish physicist, inventor of the cloud (or expansion) chamber, and credited with the discovery of...
		During his first term as president, Wilson, acting on his belief in strong executive leadership, pushed through major domestic programmes.
		The upsurge of activism in the 1960s significantly affected African-American social and cultural life.
	au.encarta.msn.com /Wilson_Charles_Thomson_Rees.html (89 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Chronoliths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A talented SF writer who has never gained the name recognition he deserves, Wilson (Darwinia) is a master of character development, comparable to the late Theodore Sturgeon in his believable portrayals of emotionally scarred loners.
		Wilson firmly grasps one of the most fundamental concepts in sociology - the concept of reification.
		Wilson is to be credited, however, in developing Sue as a gay character whose sexuality was no more remarkable than that of her straight counterparts - notable, if not deep.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312873840?v=glance (2963 words)

	The Chronoliths (Robert Charles Wilson)
		Robert Charles Wilson is an accomplished and acclaimed writer with an impressive body of work.
		Glancing at the towering stone structure on the front, and then reading through the description on the back, the reader gets the impression that he or she is in for a high tech, hard science fiction adventure involving time and space and high concepts.
		Wilson is interested in this question: How would world culture, the global economy, national governments, and individuals and their families react to such an occurence?
	johnkeyes.com /a/0812545249-the-chronoliths.html (1957 words)

	AllRefer.com - Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (Physics, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Charles Thomson Rees Wilson 1869–1959, Scottish physicist, educated at Manchester and Cambridge universities.
		He invented the Wilson cloud chamber for studying the activity of ionized particles.
		For this invention he shared with A. Compton, a U.S. physicist, the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/Wilson-CT.html (187 words)

	Physicist / Astronomer W
		In November 1994 the President of the Republic of Ireland, Mary Robinson, paid him a special visit in his Belfast nursing home to honour him as a man of science and a man of peace.
		Having attained the summit of his early ambition, he led a long and contented life, and inspired several generations of physicists.
		1869- C.T.R. Wilson, inventor of the cloud chamber (with which nuclear phenomena have been explored and Nobel prizes been won), is born the son of a shepherd in Glencorse, Scotland.
	www.mlahanas.de /Stamps/Data/PHPerson/W.htm (1682 words)

	Compton, Arthur Holly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		US physicist who in 1923 found that X-rays scattered by such light elements as carbon increased their wavelengths.
		Compton was born in Wooster, Ohio, studied at Princeton, and worked 1919-20 in the UK with nuclear physicist Ernest Rutherford at Cambridge.
		He organized research into methods of isolating fissionable plutonium and worked with Italian physicist Enrico Fermi on producing a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
	cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/C/Compton/1.html (274 words)

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		Wilson succeeds in his portrayal by avoiding the specific--he doesn't show John solving polynomials in his head or doing esoteric scientific experiments.
		Wilson at least touches on the nature of humanity, and his characters and their reactions to the situation and to each other may give us some clues, if not to the answer, at least to an answer.
		Wilson uses interludes to try to explain this, but it is such a departure from the main action, at least at the beginning, that it feels very jarring--which is probably the idea.
	www2.lysator.liu.se /sf_archive/sf-texts/books/W/Wilson,Robert_Charles.mbox (3154 words)

	Mad Physics :: Building Wilson's Cloud Chamber
		The Scottish Physicist Charles Wilson won the Nobel Prize in 1927 for his work developing the cloud chamber (often referred to as a Wilson Cloud Chamber).
		In his chamber high energies of alpha and beta particles enable particles to leave trails due to the many ions that were along the path of the charged particle.
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	Charles Wilson (physicist) Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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	Richard E. Taylor - Autobiography
		Higher education was highly prized in the society of a small prairie town and I was expected to continue on to university.
		In 1958 I was invited to join a group of physicists at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris who were planning experiments at an accelerator (similar to the linac at Stanford) which was under construction in Orsay.
		When Charles Prescott joined the group in 1970, he began a serious study of ways to test parity conservation in the interaction between an electron and a nucleon.
	nobelprize.org /physics/laureates/1990/taylor-autobio.html (1342 words)

	Charles Thomson Rees Wilson Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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	Amazon.ca: Books: The Chronoliths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It's almost as if Wilson deliberately scimps over the sci-fi bits as quickly as possible so as not to cause embaressment, nor interupt the soap opera drama of the protagonist.
		Best of all Wilson pulls the whole thing off in a reasonable length unlike some of the bloated and under edited books inflicted on us lately by "name" authors like David Hamilton.
		In Wilson's Chronliths, Scott Warden tells of how the Chronoliths -- giant monuments sent back in time about 20 years by some entity known as Kuin -- have effected his life via his memoirs (this book).
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0812545249 (1262 words)

	List of Scots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) husband of Margaret MacDonald
		Charles Reid (Charlie) (born 1962) songwriter The Proclaimers
		John Charles Walsham Reith (1889-1971) a.k.a Lord Reith first Director of BBC
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	Robert Charles Wilson - new and used books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It confirms Robert Charles Wilson as an outstanding talent, transcending the genre'.
		Wilson works variations on a variety of classic fantasy themes, giving a particular, individual twist to each one.
		In his first story collection Wilson weaves a tapestry of tales set in and around the city of Toronto, a haunted, numinous Toronto of past, present and future, buzzing with strangeness.
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