Education
Born in Preston, he studied at the University of Manchester and at Cambridge University, studying radioactivity under Sir Ernest Rutherford at the latter institution.
Born in Preston, he studied at the University of Manchester and at Cambridge University, studying radioactivity under Sir Ernest Rutherford at the latter institution.
He became a lecturer at the University of Toronto before joining Bell Laboratories in 1915. There he worked in the development of radio-telephone systems Wilson later taught physics at North Carolina State College.
He died in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1948.
He was also an elected member of Sigma Xi, and a member of the American Statistical Association and American Physical Society.
