Wilson, W. 1875-1965
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Name (Latin)
Wilson, W. 1875-1965
Other forms of name
Wilson, William, 1875-1965
nnea Wilson, W. (William), b. 1875
Wilson, W. (William), 1875-
Wilson, W. (William), b. 1875 nna
nnaa Wilson, William, 1875-
Wilson, William, b. 1875
Date of birth
1875-03-01
Date of death
1965-10-14
Associated country
Great Britain
Field of activity
Agriculture
Mathematics
Physics
Occupation
College teachers
Physicists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
Fuller form of name
William
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- A hundred years of physics, 1950:title page (William Wilson, F.R.S., Ph.D., D. Sc., Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of London)
- William Wilson (English academic); William Wilson FRS FHAS (1 March 1875 - 14 October 1965) was a leading figure in academic circles. He was born at Goodyhills, in the Abbey Holme District of Cumberland. Wilson attended the Aspatria Agricultural College between the years 1891-93. He left Aspatria in the summer of 1893 having gained a scholarship at the Royal College of Science, South Kensington where he studied agriculture and agricultural chemistry. Between the years 1896 and 1898 he taught at a school in Towcester, Northamptonshire. In 1898 he became Master of Mathematics at Beccles College, Suffolk, and Craven College, Highgate, London. He was determined to extend his understanding of mathematics and learned German, which enabled him to teach at the Berlitz Language Schools, Elberfeld, Germany, and at branches of the school in Dortmund, Münster, Barmen and Cologne, between the years 1901 and 1902. In 1902 he enrolled as a student at Leipzig University, where he obtained a PhD for his research on the photoelectric effect. His teaching career started in 1906 following his return from Germany, when he became an assistant lecturer in the Wheatstone laboratory in King's College London. In 1917 he received a doctorate from London University. In 1919 he accepted the position of a readership in the Physics Department in King's College, while in 1921 he was appointed to the Hildred Carlile chair of physics at Bedford College where he ended his working career in 1944. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society, in 1923; a Fellow of King's College London; and a Professor Emeritus in 1944. William Wilson died at his home in Hereford in 1965 ( (Wikipedia, viewed March 31, 2020) )
- LCCN 31-18733: His Theoretical physics, 1931(hdg.: Wilson, William, 1875- ; usage: W. Wilson)