Human Accomplishment: Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

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a Scottish physicist and meteorologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of the cloud chamber.

Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in physics (shared ) (1927)

"for his method of making the paths of electrically charged particles visible by condensation of vapour"

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Wikipedia Article
(Charles Wilson)

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Britain

era

1800+