The name “cosmic ray” dates back to 1925, when Nobel laureate and former UChicago faculty member Robert Millikan coined the term in a paper. Cosmic rays are actually particles from space that travel ...

To honest Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan, a fact is a fact. Last week he recognized a new one. Although it fortified the cosmic ray theory of Dr. Arthur Holly Compton, who had become Dr. Millikan’s ...

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