Cosmic ray detection by atmospheric fluorescence

26 Nov 2009
My dad's 1964 thesis is online and findable thanks to Google Scholar. He brought out a bond-paper hard-copy for us yesterday evening. Really fun looking back at his work and marveling at the state of the art 45 years ago. The circuit diagrams have vacuum tubes, the equations are carefully done with pen and ruler. And the science is still pretty cool.

Posted by Andrew Bunner on Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 5:39 AM | 0 TrackBacks

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