What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: C. T. R. Wilson, Companion of Honour, Nobel Laureate in Physics, Inventor of the Cloud Chamber was born in Crosshouse Farm, Glencorse in 1869 and died in Cerlops in 1959 Recorded plaque organisation: Institute of Physics.
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson was a Scottish physicist who invented the cloud chamber, an instrument used for detecting ionizing radiation, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927.
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