Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
Scottish physicist and meteorologist (1869-1959)
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Updated 2026-05-29
Scottish physicist who invented the cloud chamber—a device that basically made invisible particles visible. Shared the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics for letting physicists see what atoms were actually doing.
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Charles Thomson Rees Wilson was a British meteorologist and physicist who shared the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics with Arthur Compton for his invention of the cloud chamber.
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