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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English Russian |
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New York :
Nova Publishers,
[2014]
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| Series: | Space science, exploration and policies series.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
