Cosmic ray history /

In the present book, we consider the dramatic early history of cosmic ray discovery and research in all aspects up to about the middle of the 1950s (Part I, Chapters 1 - 14), the history of CR experimental basis development (Part II, Chapters 15 - 22), the history of studies in CR and on accelerator...

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Main Authors: Dorman, L. I. (Author), Dorman, I. V. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Russian
Published: New York : Nova Publishers, [2014]
Series:Space science, exploration and policies series.
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245 1 0 |a Cosmic ray history /  |c Lev I. Dorman, Israel Cosmic Ray and Space Weather Center with Emilio Segré Observatory, affiliated to Tel Aviv University, Golan Research Institute, and Israel Space Agency, Tel Aviv, Israel, Cosmic Ray Dep. of N.V. Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial, Magnetism, Ionosphere, and Radio wave Propagation (IZMIRAN), Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia, & Irina V. Dorman, Institute of History of Science and Technology Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia. 
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505 0 |a COSMIC RAY HISTORY; COSMIC RAY HISTORY; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA; Contents; Preface; How Cosmic Rays Were Discovered and Why They; Received This Misnomer; Three Faces of CR Phenomenon; Cosmic Rays as "Writing on the Wall"; On the Origin of Cosmic Rays; Cosmic Ray Research as a Multi-handed Indian Maadurga; References; Acknowledgments; Frequently Used Abbreviations and Notations; Part I. Early Cosmic Ray History; Chapter 1: Early Studies of Air Ionization Sources and the Discovery of Cosmic Rays; 1.1. Electricity Dispersion through Air; (18th-19th Centuries) 
505 8 |a 1.9. Recognizing of Cosmic Ray Discovery Importance: The Nobel Prize in Physics for 1936References; Chapter 2: Early Studies of 'High Altitude Radiation' and Proofs of its Extra-Terrestrial Origin; 2.1. Experiments of W. Kolhörster and Proof of Existing High-Altitude Radiation (1913-1914); 2.2. Experiments of R.A. Millikan with Collaborators; on Balloons and Contradiction with W. Kolhörster's Results (1922-1923); 2.3. Measurements of Absorption Factor in Ice and Lead at Mountains: Irreparable Blow Struck to the Hypothesis about Existing Radiation from Space (1923) 
505 8 |a 2.4. The Dependence of Absorption Factor from Atomic Charge Number Z: Rehabilitation of the Hypotheses on Space Origin of High-Altitude Radiation (1925-1926)2.5. Final Proof of Extra-Terrestrial Origin of High-Altitude Radiation and Millikan's Supposition to Call It; as Cosmic Rays (1926); 2.6. The Earlier CR Studies in Former USSR: Absorption in Water and Zenith Angle Distribution (1925-1926); 2.7. Further Investigations of CR Absorption in the Air; and Water by Millikan and Cameron: Discovery of CR Heterogeneity (1926-1928) 
505 8 |a 2.8. The Checking of Wilson's Hypotheses on Electron Acceleration in Electric Fields in Thunderstorm Clouds (1927-1928)2.9. Increasing of Measurement Depth up to 50 m and Hypotheses on Cosmic Rays Consisting of Three Groups of Photons with Different Absorption Factors; 2.10. Underwater Cosmic Ray Experiments in the Depth Interval 30-230 m (1928-1930); 2.11. Underwater Cosmic Ray Experiments and Discussion: What Are Cosmic Rays, Energetic Photons, or Energetic Charged Particles?; 2.12. The problems with Interpretation Absorption Curves in Materials from Heavy Elements (1925-1928) 
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