Article ID: CBB000072775

The most wonderful experiment in the world: A history of the cloud chamber (1997)

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Description On the transformation by C.T.R. Wilson of the cloud chamber into a crucial tool of the particle physicist, and the process of its acceptance.


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Authors & Contributors
Ya, Shugang
Welshman, John
Thane, Pat
Ryan, J. Philip
Pursell, Carroll W.
Potts, Patricia
Journals
Economic History Review
Journal of the History of Biology
Society for the Social History of Medicine Bulletin
Social History of Medicine
Psychologie und Geschichte
Oxford Review of Education
Publishers
Two Stevens
Samton for the Institute of Chemistry of Ireland
Peter Peregrinus
Ohio State University Press
Croom Helm
Concepts
Professional qualifications; status; remuneration
Industrial medicine; occupational diseases
Household technology
Science
Nutrition; dietetics
Psychology
People
Mitchell, Peter Chalmers
Zuckerman, Solly
Wright brothers, Wilber and Orville
Wilson, C. T. R.
Whewell, William
Paterson, Clifford
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
Places
British Isles
Institutions
Institute of Chemistry of Ireland
Chemical Association of Ireland
Electrical Association for Women
Cambridge. University. Laboratory of Molecular Biology
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