James Cronin

James Cronin (2012) - Spontaneous Ionization to Subatomic Physics: Some Vignettes from Cosmic Ray History

Spontaneous Ionization to Subatomic Physics:Some Vignettes from Cosmic Ray HistoryIn the 1879 Crookes discovered that air seemed to ionize spontaneously.With the discovery in 1896 of radioactivity by Henri Becqueral it appeared that the mystery was solved