Cloud Chamber Particle Tracks
Develops the expansion cloud chamber, allowing tracks of fast charged particles including electrons to be photographed.
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Charles Thomson Rees Wilson Biography and Timeline
Follow Charles Thomson Rees Wilson through 4 dated historical records for Great Britain.
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, historical timeline
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1911
1912
Cloud Chamber Particle Tracks
Photographs tracks made by charged particles in a cloud chamber.
Ionizing Radiation Photography
Makes invisible ionizing radiation paths directly observable.
1927
Nobel Prize
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for developing the cloud-chamber method that makes the tracks of electrically charged particles visible.
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