C.T.R. Wilson and the cloud chamber |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi 221005, U.P., India;2. Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi 221005, U.P., India;1. Atomic Physics Laboratory (040), Vin?a Institute of Nuclear Sciences, University of Belgrade, P.O. Box 522, 11001 Belgrade, Serbia;2. Institute for Theoretical Physics, Vienna University of Technology, Wiedner Hauptstraße 8-10, A-1040 Vienna, Austria;3. Institute for Nuclear Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (ATOMKI), H-4026 Debrecen, 4026 Debrecen Bem tër 18/c, Hungary;4. ELI-ALPS, ELI-HU Non-profit Kft., Dugonics tr 13, H-6720 Szeged, Hungary;1. Atomic Physics Laboratory (040), Vin?a Institute of Nuclear Sciences, University of Belgrade, P.O. Box 522, 11001 Belgrade, Serbia;2. Institute for Nuclear Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (ATOMKI), P.O. Box 51, H-4026 Debrecen, Hungary;1. Università degli Studi di Padova, Dipartimento di Matematica Tullio Levi-Civita, Via Trieste, 63, 35121 Padova, Italy;2. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS UMR 5208, Institut Camille Jordan, 43 blvd. du 11 novembre 1918, F-69622 Villeurbanne cedex, France |
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| Abstract: | A brief history of C.T.R. Wilson’s invention of the cloud chamber is presented. Initially, the research programme concerned the origin of the atmospheric phenomena he had experienced as a temporary meteorological observer on Ben Nevis. As his understanding of the physical conditions under which the condensation of water droplets took place from supersaturated water vapour developed, he realised that the technique provided the first way of imaging the tracks of the charged particles released by X-rays, in radioactive decays and in nuclear interactions. |
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