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Cloud Chamber Particle Tracks

Great Britain · Science / Technology. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1911

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson1911

Cambridge · Science / Technology

Develops the expansion cloud chamber, allowing tracks of fast charged particles including electrons to be photographed.

Names involved

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

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