biography
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Wilson, C(harles) T(homson) R(ees)
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| (1869–1959)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Glencorse, Midlothian, EC Scotland, UK. He studied at Manchester and Cambridge universities, where he became professor of natural philosophy (1925–34). While studying cloud formation as a meteorologist, he developed the device called the Wilson cloud chamber. He made use of X-rays to investigate cloud formation due to the presence of ionized particles, and his finding that the radiation left a trail of water droplets in the chamber led to the wide use of the chamber in nuclear physics. He shared the 1927 Nobel Prize of Physics. |
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