wilson

Noun

• a peak in the San Juan mountains of Colorado (14,246 feet high)

• 28th President of the United States; led the United States in World War I and secured the formation of the League of Nations (1856-1924)

• United States literary critic (1895-1972)

• Scottish physicist who invented the cloud chamber (1869-1959)

• United States entomologist who has generalized from social insects to other animals including humans (born in 1929)

• American Revolutionary leader who was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence (1742-1798)

• Canadian geophysicist who was a pioneer in the study of plate tectonics (1908-1993)

• United States physicist honored for his work on cosmic microwave radiation (born in 1918)

• Scottish ornithologist in the United States (1766-1813)

• English writer of novels and short stories (1913-1991)

• author of the first novel by an African American that was published in the United States (1808-1870)

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  Wilson , Mount Wilson , Woodrow Wilson , Thomas Woodrow Wilson , President Wilson , Edmund Wilson , Charles Thomson Rees Wilson , E. O. Wilson , Edward Osborne Wilson , James Wilson , John Tuzo Wilson , Robert Woodrow Wilson , Alexander Wilson , Sir Angus Wilson , Angus Frank Johnst