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Kenneth Wilson
Kenneth Wilson (1936 - ) received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1981 for his theory for critical phenomena in connection with phase transitions.
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Robert W. Wilson
Robert Woodrow Wilson (1936 - ) received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1978 along with Arno A. Penzias for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation. This discovery was a fundamental ...
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Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869 - 1959) received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1927 for his discovery of the expansion method of rendering visible the tracks of electrically charged particles.
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Sir Joseph Wilson Swan
Sir Joseph Swan (1818 - 1914) was a physicist and chemist born in Sunderland, England who is credited with producing the first electric light bulb.
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Arno A. Penzias
Arno A. Penzias (1933 - ) received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1978 along with Robert Woodrow Wilson for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation. This discovery was a fundamental ...
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The Invention of the Light Bulb: Davy, Swan and Edison
The first electric light was made in 1800 by Humphry Davy, an English scientist. Much later, in 1878, the English physicist Sir Joseph Wilson Swan demonstrated his new electric lamps in Newcastle, ...
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