page_title: Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
section_title: Contributions
hierarchical_section_title: Charles Thomson Rees Wilson / Contributions
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Gedenkplakette auf dem Ben Nevis (Schottland) für das ehem. Observatorium. Die Beobachtungen hier inspirierten C. Wilson zur Entwicklung der Nebelkammer.
context_page_description: Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, CH, FRS was a Scottish physicist and meteorologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of the cloud chamber.
context_section_description: The invention of the cloud chamber was by far Wilson's signature accomplishment, earning him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1927. The Cavendish laboratory praised him for the creation of "a novel and striking method of investigating the properties of ionized gases". The cloud chamber allowed huge experimental leaps forward in the study of subatomic particles and the field of particle physics, generally. Some have credited Wilson with making the study of particles possible at all.
  Wilson published numerous papers on meteorology and physics, on topics including X-rays, ionization, thundercloud formation, and other meteorological events. Wilson may also have observed a sprite in 1924, 65 years before their official discovery. Weather was a focus of Wilson's work throughout his career, from his early observations at Ben Nevis to his final paper, on thunderclouds.
caption: Commemorative plaque at Ben Nevis about the observatory there, and C.T.R. Wilson's cloud chamber
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