Philosophy
Abstract:
The cosmic ray conference at Bagneres de Bigorre in July, 1953 organized by Patrick Blackett and Louis Leprince-Ringuet was a seminal one. It marked the beginning of sub atomic physics and its shift from cosmic ray research to research at the new high energy accelerators. The knowledge of the heavy unstable particles found in the cosmic rays was essentially correct in fact and interpretation and dened the experiments that needed to be carried out with the new accelerators. A large fraction of the physicists who had been using cosmic rays for their research moved to the accelerators. This conference can be placed in importance in the same category as two other famous conferences, the Solvay congress of 1927 and the Shelter Island Conference of 1948.
"The 1953 Cosmic Ray Conference at Bagneres de Bigorre: the Birth of Sub Atomic Physics" by James W. Cronin
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Philosophy
Bagneres de Bigorre 1953...the cosmic ray conference
Abstract:The cosmic ray conference at Bagneres de Bigorre in July, 1953 organized by Patrick Blackett and Louis Leprince-Ringuet was a seminal one. It marked the beginning of sub atomic physics and its shift from cosmic ray research to research at the new high energy accelerators. The knowledge of the heavy unstable particles found in the cosmic rays was essentially correct in fact and interpretation and dened the experiments that needed to be carried out with the new accelerators. A large fraction of the physicists who had been using cosmic rays for their research moved to the accelerators. This conference can be placed in importance in the same category as two other famous conferences, the Solvay congress of 1927 and the Shelter Island Conference of 1948.
"The 1953 Cosmic Ray Conference at Bagneres de Bigorre: the Birth of Sub Atomic Physics" by James W. Cronin
- Deceased--frank B. Mcdonald
Frank B. McDonald [right] with astronomer James A. Van Allen. Frank B. McDonald August 31st, 2012 "Frank McDonald, NASA scientist, astrophysicist 50 years" by Adam Bernstein September 15th, 2012 Washington Post Frank B. McDonald, an astrophysicist...
- Aboriginal Oral Traditions And "cosmic Impacts And Meteorite Falls"--mythology
Abstract: Descriptions of cosmic impacts and meteorite falls are found throughout Australian Aboriginal oral traditions. In some cases, these texts describe the impact event in detail, suggesting that the events were witnessed, sometimes citing the location....
- Becky Parker...getting Kids Involved In Science
"A student research network built on a chip" June 2010 Symmetry What inspired you in physics? Was it the curriculum at school? For me it was a lecture about Mars that Carl Sagan gave at the Royal Institution; it was 1977, and he invited the audience—I...
- Powerful Accelerators
Abstract: Following the successful operation of the Fermilab superconducting accelerator three new higher energy accelerators were planned. They were the UNK in the Soviet Union, the LHC in Europe, and the SSC in the United States. All were expected...
- Rutherford, Large Hadron Collider, Theoretical Physics
Abstract: In this article, I set out arguments why the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) : the machine and the experiments with it, are a watershed for particle physics. I give a historical perspective of the essential link between development of particle...