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Celebration of the centenary of the discovery of the cosmic radiation
Alessandro De Angelis
(INFN / Univ. di Udine)
20/06/2012, 09:10
Early measurements from Pacini and others
Claus Grupen
(Siegen University)
20/06/2012, 10:20
Cosmic rays after Hess is the birthplace of elementary particle physics.
The 1936 Nobel prize was shared between Victor Hess and Carl Anderson.
Anderson discovered the positron in a cloud chamber. The positron was
predicted by Dirac several years earlier, but Anderson was not aware of it.
In his subsequent cloud chamber investigations Anderson found - together
with Neddermeyer - the muon,...
