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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1948

"for his development of the Wilson cloud chamber method, and his discoveries therewith in the fields of nuclear physics and cosmic radiation"
Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
United Kingdom
Victoria University
Manchester, United Kingdom
b. 1897
d. 1974
 
 
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