Charles Thomson Rees Wilson was inspired by cloud formations on Ben Nevis The huge contribution made by an often-overlooked Nobel prize-winning Scottish scientist is being celebrated at a special ...

In 1911 Charles Thomson Rees Wilson of Cambridge University invented a “cloud chamber” in which tracks made by sub-atomic particles could be seen. At about the same time Hans Geiger ...

Physicist Wilson. In 1895, when Professor Compton was a demure three-year-old baby at Wooster (he is now 35), Charles Thomson Rees Wilson began his serious study of electromagnetic forces.

The only Scottish-born physicist ever to have won the Nobel Prize for Physics, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson was inspired by the cloud formations he had witnessed on Ben Nevis. He started out ...

The only Scottish-born physicist ever to have won the Nobel Prize for Physics, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson was inspired by the cloud formations he had witnessed on Ben Nevis. He started out ...