Harold A. Wilson (physicist)
- Harold A. Wilson (physicist)
Harold Albert Wilson (December 1, 1874–1964) was an English physicist.
He was born in York, England, the son of a railway clerk. His mother, Anne Gill, was the daughter of a farmer and innkeeper from Topcliffe. Harold had one sister, Lilian, who would marry Sir Owen W. Richardson.
He was educated at Yorkshire College in Leeds, the University of Leeds and the University of Berlin. In 1896 he was a colleague of English physicist J. J. Thompson in Cambridge, and performed one of the earliest measurements of the electron's charge. He was awarded his D.Sc. from London in 1900. From 1901 to 1904, he was a Clerk-Maxewell Student the Cavendish Laboratory. He became a lecturer in Physics at King's College, London, then professor at the college in 1905. In 1909 he was a professor at McGill University in Montreal. He joined the Rice Institute in 1912, becoming the first chair of the physics department. He spent a year at the University of Glasgow in 1924 before becoming a physicist for an oil company in Houston. He retired from Rice University in 1947.
Awards and honors
* The Wilson Award at Rice University is named after him.
References
*cite journal
last=Thomson | first=George P.
title=Harold Albert Wilson. 1874-1964
journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
year=1965 | volume=11 | pages=187-201
*cite web
url=http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH2464&type=P
title=Biography of Harold Wilson
publisher=University of Glasgow
accessdate=2008-09-02
*cite web
url=http://www.physics.rice.edu/blank.cfm?doc_id=2176
title=Physics and Astronomy Awards
publisher=Rice University
accessdate=2008-09-02
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