2008

NT2363 : Blue plaque for a Nobel prize winner

taken 17 years ago, near to Easter Howgate, Midlothian, Scotland

Blue plaque for a Nobel prize winner
Blue plaque for a Nobel prize winner
Wilson spent a few weeks as a volunteer observer at the meteorological observatory on Ben Nevis summit in 1894. On returning to Cambridge, he devised a cloud chamber apparatus to reproduce clouds on a small scale, which also proved invaluable in detecting ionising radiation, then a burgeoning branch of physics. He shared the 1927 Nobel Prize with Arthur Compton for this work.

The plaque is a couple of hundred metres along a path from the ranger centre at Flotterstone, close by the Pentland Hills.

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Category: Blue Plaque
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Pentland Hills [10] · Ranger Centre [4] · Nobel Prize [3] Other Photos: · Carlops from the slopes of Patie's Hill · Brocken spectre, Beinn na Cille · Memorial to C.T.R. Wilson, Nobel Prize Winner · Neidpath Tunnel, site of a pioneer cosmic ray experiment ·
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Jim Barton   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Wednesday, 30 July, 2008   (more nearby)
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Wednesday, 30 July, 2008
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OSGB36: geotagged! NT 231 630 [100m precision]
WGS84: 55:51.2696N 3:13.7693W
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OSGB36: geotagged! NT 231 630
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