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Birth of Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

14 February 1869

Scottish physicist and meteorologist (1869-1959). Charles Thomson Rees Wilson was born on 14 February 1869 in what is now the United Kingdom. Charles Thomson Rees Wilson is remembered as a physicist, meteorologist and university teacher, a citizen of the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

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