The name “cosmic ray” itself dates to 1925, when Nobel laureate and former UChicago faculty member Robert Millikan coined the term in a paper in Science. (We’ve since learned that they are particles, ...

Again last week Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan reiterated that the universe is constantly being regenerated. Sir James Hopwood Jeans, and others, argue that it is blowing into wavy smithereens.

A whole galaxy of cosmic ray experts gathered last week at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, to honor Nobel Prizeman Dr. Robert A. Millikan, 80, principal discoverer and namer of ...

Cosmic rays are streams of high-energy particles that hit Earth's atmosphere at near light speed. ... and the term "cosmic rays" was coined by physicist Robert Millikan in 1925.

Cosmic rays discovered. ... The famous American physicist Robert Millikan called Hess's penetrating radiation "cosmic rays," but "rays" is a misnomer.

During the course of seven balloon trips, Hess discovered cosmic rays — confirmed and named by Robert Millikan in 1925 — coming from beyond our solar system.

Robert Millikan (who coined the term 'cosmic rays' in 1925) continued to insist that they were electromagnetic 'rays', even after Arthur Compton had established that they were really 'particles ...

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Those cosmic rays then spend 10 million years, give or take, speeding through interstellar space until some of them reach our planet. A handful of those, in turn, happened to reach Super-TIGER. The ...