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Charles Thomson Rees Wilson. Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, CH, FRS [1] (14 February 1869 – 15 November 1959) was a Scottish physicist and meteorologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of the cloud chamber. [2] [3]
Apr 16, 2024 · C.T.R. Wilson (born Feb. 14, 1869, Glencorse, Midlothian, Scot.—died Nov. 15, 1959, Carlops, Peeblesshire) was a Scottish physicist who, with Arthur H. Compton, received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1927 for his invention of the Wilson cloud chamber, which became widely used in the study of radioactivity, X rays, cosmic rays, and other nuclear phenomena.
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Charles Thomson Rees Wilson. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1927. Born: 14 February 1869, Glencorse, Scotland. Died: 15 November 1959, Carlops, Scotland. Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Prize motivation: “for his method of making the paths of electrically charged particles visible by ...
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Dec 7, 2012 · The only Scottish-born physicist ever to have won the Nobel Prize for Physics, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson was inspired by the cloud formations he had witnessed on Ben Nevis. He started out ...
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869–1959), a Scottish physicist, is credited with inventing the cloud chamber. Inspired by sightings of the Brocken spectre while working on the summit of Ben Nevis in 1894, he began to develop expansion chambers for studying cloud formation and optical phenomena in moist air.
May 21, 2018 · The Scottish physicist Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869-1959) was the inventor and developer of the Wilson cloud chamber. Charles Wilson was born on Feb. 14, 1869, in Glencorse near Edinburgh. He received his first undergraduate training at Owens College, now part of the University of Manchester, and from there, at the age of 19, he went to ...
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson CH (February 14, 1869 – November 15, 1959) was a Scottish meteorologist and physicist who developed the cloud chamber for visualizing the tracks of electrically charged particles such as the electron. The cloud chamber became an essential instrument for exploration of the realm of subatomic particles and the ...
