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JABEZ CURRY STREET
Pages 347-356

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... RAMSEY, AND K STRAUCH rABEZ CURRY STREET was a boIcIly innovative experimental physicist whose discoveries in cosmic rays influencec!
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... their apparatus to the higher en c! Tower latitucles of Mexico City to show there was an east-west effect, with the west intensity being greater, corresponding to positively charged particles being a dominant component of the primary cosmic radiation.
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... with quantum mechanical theories of the interaction of racliation en c! matter and, second, that the most penetrating cosmic rays were previously unknown positive en c!
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... Initially he resumes! his studies of cosmic rays with his new graduate students, William Whittemore, EarIe Fowler, Rodney Cool, Ann Chamberlain Birge, Robert Carter, en c!
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... immecliate and complete apology." Curry Street en c! his wife Leila frequently entertained students, colleagues, visiting scientists, en c!
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... 352 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS out his life, en c!
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... Penetrating corpuscular component of the cosmic radiation.
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... Evidence for spin zero of the ~ from the two gammaray decay mode.
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... JABEZ CURRY STREET 1963 355 With others. Improved determination of the neutral decay branching ratios of the meson and the hyperon.
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