Black and white photographic print showing a disintegration produced in a lead plate by cosmic rays

Black and white photographic print showing a disintegration

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Black and white photographic print showing a disintegration
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Black and white photographic print showing a disintegration produced in a lead plate by cosmic rays. One of the particles ionises heavily, taken on Pike's Peak, by Carl David Anderson and Seth H. Neddermeyer, at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States, 1935-1937

Details

Category:
Nuclear Physics
Object Number:
1937-238
Materials:
paper (fibre product)
Measurements:
overall: 1 mm x 130 mm x 100 mm, >0.01 kg
type:
black-and-white print - photograph and stereograph
credit:
Anderson, C.D.