The reality of neutrinos
JUL 01, 1948
The author, a theoretical physicist, treats here of the neutrino, a particle known by its absence rather than by its presence, from its role in nuclear transformations to its possible role in a quantum theory of gravitation.
DOI: 10.1063/1.3066092
In the year 1914 a young (at that time) British physicist, James Chadwick, who was sent to Germany to study the phenomena of radioactive decay, came across a rather interesting but, as it looked then, not very important discovery. He found that electrons emitted by radioactive substances in the process called beta transformation do not all possess the same velocity. In fact their velocities vary over a rather wide range.
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George Gamow, George Washington University.
© 1948 American Institute of Physics
