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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. While ...
Scientists are fascinated by cosmic rays because they can tell us about space—where they came from and what they encountered along the way—as well as the makeup of the galaxy and the universe. The ...
They were discovered in the 1900s, and the term "cosmic rays" was coined by physicist Robert Millikan in 1925.
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 ...
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.
Feature Millikan and Compton Debate Cosmic Ray Facts and Theories By Science News Magazine Issue: Vol. 23 No. #613, January 7, 1933 ...
There's too much antimatter in cosmic rays, showers of charged particles that pelt Earth. Could this be explained by annihilating dark matter?
This article is cited by History of Research in Cosmic Rays* ROBERT A. MILLIKAN Nature (1930) ...
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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