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Laboratory on Mt. Wrangell

JUL 01, 1953
NYU‐University of Alaska Project
Physics Today

Mt. Wrangell, a fourteen thousand‐foot mountain in the interior of Alaska southeast of Fairbanks, will be the site of a scientific research station if an expedition now in progress is successful. Under the joint leadership of Serge A. Korff, professor of physics at New York University, and Terris Moore, president of the University of Alaska, a group of physicist‐mountaineers from both institutions is attempting to establish a laboratory at the summit for use in studies of cosmic rays, high altitude biology, meteorology, and other fields requiring facilities at high altitudes. A far‐northern station such as this will be of especial importance in investigations of the latitude effect in cosmic radiation.

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