Today (November 15, 1959) is the Memorial
Day of Charles Thompson Rees Wilson, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for
his discovery of the Wilson cloud chamber.
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson was born on 14
February 1869 in Midlothian, Scotland to John Wilson and Annie Clerk. The
father was a farmer. When his father died in 1873, his family moved to
Manchester. At Onzu College, he studied for a degree in biology. He later
studied physics and chemistry at Sussex College, Cambridge, Sydney. He then
took a liking to meteorology and in 1893 explored the mucilage and its nature.
While working at the Astronomical Observatory in Ben Nevis, Mukilth observed
the origin. He then tested it in a small sealed container in a laboratory in
Cambridge with a liquid containing moisture.
The Wilson cloud chamber is an instrument
based on the fact that steam is easily readable on charged particles. Ionizing
rays have the property of ionizing the air in their path. This tool is used to
see and photograph the path of the rays. Ions cannot be seen alone. However, the
layer of water flame will show the path of the ion, like a dash. This happens
in the saturated spirit of m. It is called the Wilson Museum because it was
originally designed by Wilson. Wilson was awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize in
Physics for this discovery.
Cloud chambers were widely used in particle physics
from the 1920s to the 1950s until the discovery of bubbles. In particular,
positrons in 1932, muon in 1936, and kaon in 1947 were discovered using a Cloud chamber. He then observed traces of ions and radiation. Charles Thompson Reese, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the Wilson cloud
chamber, passed away on November 15, 1959, in Edinburgh, Scotland at the age of
90.
Source By: Wikipedia
Information: Ramesh, Assistant Professor of Physics, Nehru Memorial College, Puthanampatti, Trichy.
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