Wilson was a pioneer in photomicrography ...that was when he was a farm kid fooling around with a hand-me-down microscope and an old bellows camera in the 1880's. His greatest distinction, though, was coming up with the theory that no two snowflakes are alike. Harriet Baskas visited the Jericho, Vermont, Historical Museum, which devotes half of its collection to "The Snowflake Man" and his photographs.
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