Wilson, Charles Thomson Rees
Wilson, Charles Thomson Rees (1869–1959) English physicist. He invented the Wilson cloud chamber used to study radioactivity, X-rays, and cosmic rays. It uses water droplets to track ions left by passing radiation. For this invention, he shared the 1927 Nobel Prize in physics with Arthur
Compton.
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Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa.(Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...in French and British Africa. By Frederick...circumstances of East African coastal...that informed British and French policies...their colonies in Africa. In size, scope...French Equatorial Africa and French and British North African...
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Decolonization and African Society: the labour question in French and British Africa.(Review)
Magazine article from: Africa; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...question in French and British Africa. African Studies series...of labour history in East Africa whose own labours when...of the ways in which British and French officials...Cooper insists on calling British Africa. Finally Part IV deals...
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Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa.
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History; 9/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Kenya and elsewhere in East Africa - has focused primarily...the French and the British, assuming a long term imperial presence in Africa and seeking to preserve...Copperbelt and later in the British Caribbean and French West Africa. With generalized...
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Lords of the Fly: Sleeping Sickness Control in British East Africa, 1900-1960
Magazine article from: The International Journal of African Historical Studies; 9/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Sickness Control in British East Africa, 1900-1960. By Kirk...intervention. In Southern Africa, British sleeping sickness control...economic importance. In East Africa, the added policy imperative...In both colonies, British governments sought to...
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Lords of the Fly: Sleeping Sickness Control in British East Africa, 1900-1960.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: African Studies Quarterly; 3/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Sickness Control in British East Africa, 1900-1960...epidemics in colonial East Africa draw historians...book explores British sleeping-sickness...of Uganda and British Tanganyika by...of a devastated East Africa. Clearly responding...
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The postwar conservation boom in British colonial Africa
Magazine article from: Environmental History; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...department in British East and Central Africa (comprising...conservation boom in East and Central Africa is best understood...economy of the British empire from...park laws in East and Central Africa. One was the...initiation of the British colonial development...
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British fear Africa to hide terrorists.
News Wire article from: United Press International; 9/13/1999; 611 words
; ...Sept. 13 (UPI) The British Foreign Office minister, Peter Hain, says Africa more than the Middle East will be the next century...designated as responsible for British policy in Africa and the Middle East. He told British television Sky News...
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Europeans in British Administered East Africa: A Biographical Listing, 1888-1905
Magazine article from: African Research & Documentation; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Europeans in British Administered East Africa: A Biographical Listing...officials of the Imperial British East Africa Company and the assumption...responsibility for most of British East Africa by the Colonial Office...
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Race, Resistance, and the Boy Scout Movement in British Colonial Africa
Magazine article from: The International Journal of African Historical Studies; 5/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...contradictions of colonial rule in British east and southern Africa, Parsons argues that Africans...Scouts in east and southern Africa are a significant group in...only 100, 000 in all of British east and southern Africa; South Africa had the most...
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Europeans in British Administered East Africa: A Biographical Listing, 1888-1905.(Book review)
Magazine article from: International Bulletin of Missionary Research; 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Europeans in British Administered East Africa: A Biographical Listing, 1888-1905. By Stephen J...covered extends between 1888 and 1905, when control of British East Africa passed from the Foreign Office to the Colonial Office...
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British East Africa
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
British East Africa comprised the colonies of Kenya...there were no hostilities in British East Africa, but troops were recruited from...Central Africa (three battalions), British East Africa (fourteen battalions), and British...
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British West Africa
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
...colonies proved invaluable to the British war effort, not only for providing...reinforcements flew to the Middle East. British West African regiments already...became part of the 1st and 2nd (East Africa) Divisions which fought in the...
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British Central Africa
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
British Central Africa comprised the colonies...African regiments in the East African , Western Desert...embryo air force fought in East Africa before becoming part of...three countries served in East Africa Command, and some of Southern...
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South Africa
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
...the southern tip of Africa consisting of the...Cape Colony (under British control since 1806...the creation of British-controlled territories...Botswana ) and north-east ( Zimbabwe ) during...heavy losses, the British managed to fulfil...the Union of South Africa. With the general...
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South Africa, Republic of
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
South Africa, Republic of. Former British dominion. During...route to the Far East. Handed back in...membership of the British empire. South Africa's participation...resulting in South Africa's quitting the British Commonwealth in...
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