Thomas Russell Wilkins (6 June 1891, Toronto – 10 December 1940, Rochester, New York) was a Canadian physicist.
Wilkins received in 1912 his bachelor's degree in physics from McMaster University (which was then located in Toronto).
[1] In 1921 he received his PhD from the University of Chicago with his thesis Multiple valency in the ionization by alpha rays.
In 1926 he joined the Physics Department of the University of Rochester in New York.
Wilkins secured photographic recordings of cosmic rays and the disintegration of radium atoms.