Celestial Messengers (Record no. 96852)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9783642283710
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024 7# - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER
Standard number or code 10.1007/978-3-642-28371-0
Source of number or code doi
050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number QC6.9
050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number QC5.53
072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE
Subject category code PDX
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072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE
Subject category code SCI055000
Source bisacsh
072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE
Subject category code SCI034000
Source bisacsh
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 530.01
Edition number 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Bertolotti, Mario.
Relator term author.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Celestial Messengers
Medium [electronic resource] :
Remainder of title Cosmic Rays: The Story of a Scientific Adventure /
Statement of responsibility, etc by Mario Bertolotti.
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-- Berlin, Heidelberg :
-- Springer Berlin Heidelberg :
-- Imprint: Springer,
-- 2013.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent XIV, 330 p. 105 illus., 12 illus. in color.
Other physical details online resource.
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490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Astronomers' Universe,
International Standard Serial Number 1614-659X
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Prehistory - The electron, the proton and X-rays -- Prehistory - Radioactivity -- Cosmic rays - The antefacts -- The discovery - Victor F. Hess and the balloon flights -- The confirmation - Robert Millikan and the  “birth cry” of the borning atoms -- A turning point - Things are not as they look -- The earth magnetic field and the geomagnetic effects -- The positive electron -- The electromagnetic showers -- The muon -- The discovery of the π-meson, nuclear emulsions and the first “strange” particles -- The extended showers -- Nuclear stars -- The neutrino: elusive and capricious particles able to come from very far away -- What are the primary cosmic rays? -- The origin of cosmic rays -- X- and gamma rays from space.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc The book describes from a historical point of view how cosmic rays were discovered. The book describes the research in cosmic rays. The main focus is on how the knowledge was gained, describing the main experiments and the conclusions drawn. Biographical sketches of main researchers are provided. Cosmic rays have an official date of discovery which is linked to the famous balloon flights of the Austrian physicist Hess in 1912. The year 2012 can therefore be considered the centenary of the discovery.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Physics.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Mathematics.
650 14 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Physics.
650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.
650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Particle and Nuclear Physics.
650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.
650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Popular Science in Mathematics/Computer Science/Natural Science/Technology.
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Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element SpringerLink (Online service)
773 0# - HOST ITEM ENTRY
Title Springer eBooks
776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY
Display text Printed edition:
International Standard Book Number 9783642283703
830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE
Uniform title Astronomers' Universe,
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856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Uniform Resource Identifier http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28371-0
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