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Kenneth Greisen

Physics

#1640

World Rank

#2503

Historical Rank

#682

USA Rank

Astrophysics

#194

World Rank

#217

Historical Rank

#80

USA Rank

Astronomy

#505

World Rank

#933

Historical Rank

#257

USA Rank

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Physics

Kenneth Greisen's Degrees

PhD Physics Rice University
Bachelors Physics University of Chicago

Why Is Kenneth Greisen Influential?

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According to Wikipedia, Kenneth Ingvard Greisen was an American physicist who worked on nuclear physics and the astrophysics of cosmic rays and gamma radiation. "He will be most remembered for his realization that the cosmic microwave background limits the high-energy end of the spectrum of cosmic ray protons."

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Kenneth Greisen's Published Works

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Published Works

End to the cosmic ray spectrum (1966) (1978)
Cosmic-Ray Theory (1941) (610)
Cosmic Ray Showers (1960) (307)
Interpretation of Cosmic-Ray Measurements Far Underground (1952) (286)
The cosmic ray flare effect (1958) (116)
The Intensities of the Hard and Soft Components of Cosmic Rays as Functions of Altitude and Zenith Angle (1942) (79)
Momentum spectrum and positive excess of μ-mesons (1959) (40)
The Lateral Structure of Cosmic-Ray Air Showers (1949) (38)
PROPERTIES OF EAS (1962) (28)
Momentum Spectrum of Muons (1961) (26)
Penetrating Particles in Extensive Cosmic-Ray Air Showers (1949) (26)
Pulsed high-energy gamma rays from the Crab Nebula (1973) (24)
Inefficiency and Other Sources of Error in Cosmic-Ray Measurements with Self-Quenching Counters (1942) (24)
ENERGY SPECTRUM AND POSITIVE EXCESS OF MUONS IN COSMIC-RAY AIR SHOWERS (1961) (20)
Further Measurements of the Mesotron Lifetime (1942) (19)
Intensity of Cosmic Rays at Low Altitude and the Origin of the Soft Component (1943) (19)
Ratio of Neutral to Charged Particles in the Nuclear Interacting Component of Cosmic Rays (1953) (18)
Range of Cascade Showers in Lead (1949) (18)
An imaging system for EAS optical emission (1968) (16)
Search for point sources of high-energy cosmic gamma rays (1968) (14)
ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE EFFECT FOR MESOONS FAR UNDERGROUND (1954) (13)
N-Component in Extensive Air Showers (1950) (12)
Penetrating Particles in Extensive Air Showers (1948) (11)
Origin of the Soft Component of Cosmic Rays (1942) (11)
Change in the high-energy radiation from the Crab (1975) (11)
A space-time detector for cosmic ray showers☆ (1970) (10)
Neutrons in the penetrating Showers of the Cosmic Radiation (1948) (10)
Mean Free Path of Penetrating Shower Producers (1950) (9)
A large area gas Cerenkov telescope for high energy gamma-ray astronomy (1971) (7)
SEARCH FOR DISCRETE SOURCES OF COSMIC GAMMA RAYS ABOVE 1 Gev (1966) (7)
On the Penetrating Showers of Cosmic Radiation (1948) (6)
THE PHYSICS OF COSMIC X-RAY, GAMMA-RAY AND PARTICLE SOURCES, (1969) (5)
DIURNAL VARIATIONS OF THE INTENSITY OF COSMIC RAYS FAR UNDERGROUND (1954) (5)
NUCLEAR INTERACTIONS OF HIGH-ENERGY COSMIC RAYS OBSERVED NEAR SEA LEVEL (1962) (4)
Highlights in air shower studies, 1965. (1965) (4)
Inter‐American Conference on Cosmic Rays and Space Physics (1963) (3)
Neutrino Opacity I . Neutrino-Lepton Scattering (2012) (3)
Self-Paced Introductory Physics Course--An Eight-Year Progress Report. (1977) (2)
Performance of a gas-Cherenkov gamma-ray telescope (1973) (2)
On Heavy Mesons and the Cosmic Rays Far Underground (1948) (2)
Progress in Cosmic Ray Physics. J. G. Wilson, Ed.Amsterdam: North-Holland Pub.; New York: Interscience, 1952. 557 pp. $12.00 (1952) (2)
Absence of solar and sidereal time variations of EAS during 1958 (1960) (1)
Imprisoned argentine scientist. (1977) (1)
Nuclear Cross Sections of High Energy Pi-Mesons (1950) (1)
Interpretation of Underground Cosmic-Ray Data (1949) (1)
The physics of cosmic X-ray, gamma-ray, and high-energy particles. (1975) (1)
On Neutral Mesons in Cosmic Rays (1948) (1)
Electrons (+ and -), Protons, Photons, Neutrons, Mesotrons, and Cosmic Rays . (Rev. ed.) Robert A. Millikan-. Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press, 1947. Pp. x + 642. (Illustrated.) $6.00. (1947) (1)
9)From K. Greisen to Dr. Hayakawa. (1949) (0)
Distribution of points of initiation of EAS (1960) (0)
Homeodomain Protein and Its mRNA REFERENCES AND NOTES Through Plasmodesmata (2007) (0)
A Large-Area Gas-Čerenkov Detector for High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy (1971) (0)
Cosmic gamma ray observations above 250 MeV. (1972) (0)
Further measurements on extensive air showers (1958) (0)
lambda-Mesons in air showers. (1949) (0)
6)FROM DR. K. GREISEN TO MR. HAYAKAWA (1949) (0)
Book reviewEncyclopedia of physics: edited by S. Flügge. Vol. 46/2: Cosmic Rays II. 654 pages, diagrams, 6 × 10 in. New York, Springer-Verlag, 1967. Price $44.50 (1968) (0)
Imprisoned Argentine Scientist (1977) (0)
Cosmic Ray Physics . D. J. X. Montgomery. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton Univ. Press, 1949. Pp. viii + 370. (Illustrated.) $5.00. (1949) (0)
Detection of Pulsed High Energy Gamma Rays from the Crab. (1973) (0)
Upper limits of hard gamma-ray emission from six x-ray sources (1975) (0)
λ-Mesons in Air Showers (1949) (0)
Progress in Cosmic Ray Physics . J. G. Wilson, Ed. Amsterdam: North-Holland Pub.; New York: Interscience, 1952. 557 pp. $12.00. (1952) (0)
A panel discussion on the future direction of gamma-ray astronomy (1973) (0)
Cloud Chamber Photographs of the Cosmic Radiation. G. D. Rochester and J. G. Wilson. New York: Academic Press; London: Pergamon Press, 1952. 128 pp. + plates. $10.80 (1953) (0)
High Energy Gamma Ray Astronomy (1975) (0)
Studies in support of the analysis of astronomical data from Apollo 16 (1976) (0)

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