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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1927
Arthur H. Compton, C.T.R. Wilson

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1927

Arthur Holly Compton

Arthur Holly Compton

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1927 was divided equally between Arthur Holly Compton "for his discovery of the effect named after him" and Charles Thomson Rees Wilson "for his method of making the paths of electrically charged particles visible by condensation of vapour".

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