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The cloud chamber and CTR Wilson's legacy to atmospheric science

✍ Scribed by Giles Harrison

Book ID: 104602851
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Weight: 616 KB
Volume: 66
Category: Article
ISSN: 0043-1656
DOI: 10.1002/wea.830

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Charles Thomas Rees (‘CTR’) Wilson (1869–1959) received the 1927 Nobel Prize for the cloud chamber, first described in a paper published a century ago. The cloud chamber makes high energy particles visible. Wilson's principal work was in atmospheric electricity at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, and his scientific legacy is both to particle physics and atmospheric science. In atmospheric electricity Wilson provided the ‘global circuit’ concept with which to understand the current flow between disturbed weather and fair weather regions elsewhere. The cloud chamber remains actively used in physics education and the global circuit is central in atmospheric electricity research. Copyright © 2011 Royal Meteorological Society

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