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Early History of Cosmic Ray Studies

Personal Reminiscences with Old Photographs

Editors:

  1. Yataro Sekido

    1. Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

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  2. Harry Elliot

    1. Imperial College, London, UK

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Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library (ASSL, volume 118)

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Table of contents (38 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. The Beginnings

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Native Place of Cosmic Rays

      • Yataro Sekido, Harry Elliot
      Pages 3-8

    3. Hess’ Old Predecessors

      • Yataro Sekido
      Pages 9-15

    5. Early Propagation of Cosmic Ray Studies

      • Yataro Sekido, Harry Elliot
      Pages 33-38

  3. Memory of Remote Days

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45
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    2. The Early Stage of Cosmic Ray Particle Research

      • Dimitry V. Skobeltzyn
      Pages 47-52

    3. Arcetri, 1928 – 1932

      • Bruno Rossi
      Pages 53-73

    6. Edinburgh, Cambridge, and Baffin Bay

      • Hugh Carmichael
      Pages 99-113

  4. Positron and Mesotron

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115
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    4. Cosmic Ray Study in Nishina Laboratory

      • Masa Takeuchi
      Pages 137-143

    5. The “Magnet House” and the Muon

      • John G. Wilson
      Pages 145-160

    6. When Muons and Pions were Born

      • Erich R. Bagge
      Pages 161-164

  5. Sea, Mountain and Underground

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165
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About this book

On the occasion of the International Conference on Cosmic Rays held in Kyoto in August 1979 five aged members of the cosmic ray fraternity, H. Elliot, V. L. Ginzburg, B. Peters, Y. Sekido, and J. A. Simpson met together as a dinner party devoted to the enjoyment of Japanese cuisine and reminiscences of our younger days. This pleasant occasion called to of our own age as well as some eminent seniors not present at the mind the many friends conference whose recollections would have further enriched and enlivened our evening. By the time the dinner came to an end we had agreed that the compilation of a more extensive collection of personal reminiscences would be an interesting and worthwhile undertaking. Accordingly, the next day we held an editorial meeting to draw up a list of potential authors and two of us, the present editors, started work on the project. In putting the book together our intention has been to try to capture and record through these personal accounts something of the atmosphere, the excitement and the frustrations of research in cosmic rays as experienced at first hand by some of the practi­ tioners in the field. It has never been our intention that it should comprise a systematic history of the subject. Neither, unfortunately, can it be a fully representative collection since practical limits to the size of the volume alone would preclude that.
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

    Yataro Sekido

  • Imperial College, London, UK

    Harry Elliot

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Early History of Cosmic Ray Studies

  • Book Subtitle: Personal Reminiscences with Old Photographs

  • Editors: Yataro Sekido, Harry Elliot

  • Series Title: Astrophysics and Space Science Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5434-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1985

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-8899-2Published: 13 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-5434-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0067-0057

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7985

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 464

  • Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques

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