The British physicist Patrick M. S. Blackett (1897-1974) used a modified Wilson cloud chamber to obtain the first photographs of the tracks left by the particles involved in a nuclear disintegration as well as those produced by showers of cosmic rays....

Blackett was born in London on November 18, 1897. He attended the naval colleges at Dartmouth and Osborne and, when World War I began, joined the Royal Navy. At the conclusion of the war, Blackett enrolled in Magdalene College at Cambridge University,...

Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett (1897–1974) was born in Kensington, London, on November 18, and became a Nobel Prize–winning physicist who at once promoted scientific research to defeat Nazism and criticized the World War II Allied...

English physicist Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett was a physicist with wide-ranging scientific and personal interests. He is best known for his improvements to the Wilson cloud chamber leading to important discoveries about fundamental particles and...

Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett, OM, CH, FRS (18 November 1897 – 13 July 1974) was an English experimental physicist known for his work on cloud chambers, cosmic rays, and paleomagnetism. He also made a major contribution in World...