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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1927

"for his discovery of the effect named after him"
"for his method of making the paths of electrically charged particles visible by condensation of vapour"
Arthur Holly Compton Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
Arthur Holly Compton Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
half 1/2 of the prize half 1/2 of the prize
USA United Kingdom
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL, USA
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom
b. 1892
d. 1962
b. 1869
(in Glencorse, Scotland)
d. 1959
 
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