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Thin cosmic rain : particles from outer space

A scientific history of "cosmic rays" chronicles the discovery of a steady "rain" of atomic nuclei, beginning with the birth of subatomic particle physics in the 1890s and moving through the subsequent uncovering of muons, pions, kaons, hyperons, and other particles

Print Book, English, 2002
Harvard Univ Press, Cambridge, 2002