About C. T. R. Wilson
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson was a British meteorologist and physicist who shared the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics with Arthur Compton for his invention of the cloud chamber. In 1895, Wilson discovered that at a large enough expansion, ratio supersaturated water vapour condensates even without dust which he removed by previous condensations, contrary to the previous research by John Aitken. He then won a scholarship to attend Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he became interested in physics and chemistry. Wilson became particularly interested in meteorology, and in 1893 he began to study clouds and their properties.
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