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Charles T. R. Wilson

Charles T. R. Wilson
English physicist Charles T. R. Wilson won the 1927 Nobel Prize in physics. Inventor of the cloud chamber, a type of particle detector, he made visible the paths of sub-atomic particles, eventually enabling scientists to determine their mass and charge.
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Physics; Particle Detectors; Wilson, Charles Thomson Rees
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