Science & Physics1911
Cloud Chamber
by C.T.R. Wilson
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In 1911 at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory, Scottish physicist Charles Thomson Rees Wilson perfected the cloud chamber — the first instrument to make the tracks of individual subatomic particles visible. Inspired by clouds over Ben Nevis, it became the workhorse of nuclear and particle physics and won Wilson the 1927 Nobel Prize.
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