Wilson, C(harles) T(homson) R(ees)
- Wilson, C(harles) T(homson) R(ees)
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born Feb. 14, 1869, Glencorse, Midlothian, Scot.
died Nov. 15, 1959, Carlops, Peeblesshire
Scottish physicist.
His invention of the Wilson
cloud chamber, a device that became widely used in the study of radioactivity, X rays,
cosmic rays, and other particle phenomena, also led to the later development of the
bubble chamber. He shared the 1927 Nobel Prize for Physics with Arthur Compton.
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