“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 was a British experimental physicist. He developed the Wilson cloud chamber method and used it to make discoveries in nuclear physics and cosmic radiation. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1948 for these contributions.
- Field
- Physics · Nuclear Physics
- Lifespan
- 1897–1974