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40cm
actual image size: 32cm x 25cm
Description
PMS Blackett (1897-1974) produced some of the early cloud chamber photographs; PL Kapitsa (1894-1984) worked on high magnetic fields and superfluidity; P Langevin (1872-1946) established the theory of modern magnetism; E Rutherford (1871-1937) effectively founded nuclear physics with his discovery of alpha, beta and gamma rays of radiation; CTR Wilson (1869-1959) developed the cloud chamber which enabled early particle physicists to track the path of an ion.
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