Cosmic Rays: Three Lectures. Being the Revision of the 1936 Page-Barbour Lectures of the University of Virginia and the 1937 John Joly Lectures of Trinity College, Dublin.
Cambridge: Cambridge at the University Press, 1939. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. Item #2304558
First edition. Half inch tear along top edge of rear jacket panel.
viii, 134 pp. "Millikan won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1923 for his work on measuring the charge of electrons and also did important work on the photoelectric effect. He coined the term 'cosmic rays.;" "Why is a charged electroscope discharged more rapidly in a balloon than on the earth? What reaches us from beyond the Milky Way? Phenomena first noticed in 1906, and continuously investigated since then by the most delicate experimental methods, led Millikan and others experimenters to formulate the theory of cosmic rays. This book tells the whole history of this most remarkable of recent discoveries in physics, relating the results achieved, and illustrating and describing in detail the beautiful instruments used in the work."
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