The Nobel Prize in Physics 1927
Awarded on: 1927-11-10
"for his method of making the paths of electrically charged particles visible by condensation of vapour"
Affiliations:
- University of Cambridge – Cambridge, United Kingdom
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
Born: 1869-02-14 in Glencorse, Scotland
Gender: male
Field: Scottish meteorologist and physicist (1869–1959)
Biography
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson was a Scottish meteorologist and physicist who shared the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics with Arthur Compton for his invention of the cloud chamber.