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Today (February 14, 1869) is the birthday of Charles Thompson Reese Wilson, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the Wilson cloud chamber.

Today (February 14, 1869) is the birthday of Charles Thompson Reese 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.

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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.

Radioactive decay visualized in a Wilson Cloud Chamber - Imgflip

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.

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