TY - JOUR
AU - Robotti, Nadia
AB - Among the most important detecting devices in the 1930s, cosmic-ray experimental physics figures the so-called counter controlled cloud chamber. This apparatus was jointly developed in 1932 by P M S Blackett, the cloud chamber expert at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge and by G Occhialini, who mastered the counting coincidence technique following his work under the guidance of B Rossi in Florence. In this paper we address the original technical description of the apparatus and place its development within the historical and scientific framework of 1930s physics.
TI - P M S Blackett, G Occhialini and the invention of the counter-controlled cloud chamber (193132)
JF - European Journal of Physics
DO - 10.1088/0143-0807/29/2/001
DA - 2008-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/iop-publishing/p-m-s-blackett-g-occhialini-and-the-invention-of-the-counter-1Tp43Kglf1
SP - 177
VL - 29
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -