Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1763690 | Advances in Space Research | 2014 | 17 Pages |
Abstract
As many great discoveries, the phenomenon of cosmic rays was discovered mainly accidentally, during investigations that sought to answer another question: what are sources of air ionization? This problem became interesting for science about 230 years ago in the end of the 18th century, when physics met with a problem of leakage of electrical charge from very good isolated bodies. We describe the history how step by step cosmic rays was discovered and why this phenomenon received misnomer, how in cosmic rays was discovered the first antiparticle – positron. These discoveries were recognized among greatest in the 20th Century and were awarded by Nobel Prize.
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Authors
I.V. Dorman, L.I. Dorman,