What nationality was Charles Thomson Rees Wilson?
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Scottish physicist Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, born in 1869, was known for his invention of the cloud chamber, a device used to study the behavior of subatomic particles. His groundbreaking work earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927, shared with Arthur Compton.
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