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C. T. R. Wilson

Also Known As Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

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Scottish physicist who built the first working cloud chamber in 1911, showing that a charged particle leaves a visible trail of condensation droplets as it ionizes supersaturated water vapor along its path. He shared the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention, which gave physicists their first direct view of subatomic particle tracks and led to the 1932 discovery of the positron.

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Birth Year
1869 1
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Physics, cloud chamber and particle detection 1
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Built the first working cloud chamber in 1911, showing that a charged particle ionizes supersaturated water vapor along its path, and shared the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics for it.

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Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (14 February 1869 – 15 November 1959) was a British meteorologist and physicist who shared the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics with Arthur Compton for his invention of the cloud chamber.
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Cloud Chamber (Wikipedia)
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