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cloud chamber

Summary

cloud chamber ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (592 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • cloud chamber is credited with the discovery of Charles Thomson Rees Wilson[2].
  • cloud chamber's video is recorded as Wilson chamber.webm[3].
  • cloud chamber's image is recorded as CTRwilsonCloudChamberCavendishLab2013-08-29-17-09-40.jpg[4].
  • Charles Thomson Rees Wilson is named after cloud chamber[5].
  • cloud chamber's GND ID is recorded as 4171361-8[6].
  • cloud chamber's subclass of is recorded as track chamber[7].
  • cloud chamber's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00565939[8].
  • cloud chamber's Commons category is recorded as Cloud chambers[9].
  • cloud chamber's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 40574[10].
  • cloud chamber's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1911-00-00T00:00:00Z[11].
  • cloud chamber's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02f_zb[12].
  • cloud chamber's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 539.777[13].
  • cloud chamber's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0072245[14].
  • cloud chamber's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0152683[15].
  • cloud chamber's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[16].
  • cloud chamber's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/cloud-chamber[17].
  • cloud chamber's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/Wilson-cloud-chamber[18].
  • cloud chamber's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 1914368[19].
  • cloud chamber's Quora topic ID is recorded as Cloud-Chamber[20].
  • cloud chamber's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as tåkekammer[21].
  • cloud chamber's Wolfram Language entity code is recorded as Entity["MeasurementDevice", "CloudChamber"][22].
  • cloud chamber's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[23].
  • cloud chamber's World of Physics ID is recorded as CloudChamber[24].
  • cloud chamber's Larousse ID is recorded as divers/chambre/185932[25].
  • cloud chamber's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 108036090[26].

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Works and Contributions

cloud chamber is credited with the discovery of Charles Thomson Rees Wilson[2].

Why It Matters

cloud chamber ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (592 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 34 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

Related Entities

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  9. [10] ↑ . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  19. [20] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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