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César Lattes
César Lattes, born Cesare Mansueto Giulio Lattes (1924–2005), was a Brazilian experimental physicist who co-discovered the pion in 1947, produced it artificially in 1948, and helped found Brazilian physics institutions.
Clifford Charles Butler
Clifford Charles Butler (1922–1999) was an English physicist who, with George Rochester, discovered the first strange particles in cloud-chamber photographs at the University of Manchester in 1946–47.
Dmitri Skobeltsyn
Dmitri Skobeltsyn, also known as Dmitri Vladimirovich Skobeltsyn, was a Soviet physicist who pioneered cosmic-ray cloud-chamber studies and directed the Lebedev Physical Institute from 1951 to 1972.
George Rochester
George Dixon Rochester (1908–2001) was a British cosmic-ray physicist who, with Clifford Butler, discovered the first strange particle, the V-particle, in cloud-chamber photographs at Manchester, published in Nature in 1947.
Gösta Ekspong
Gösta Ekspong (1922–2017) was a Swedish particle physicist, professor at Stockholm University from 1960 to 1988, who discovered neutral pions in cosmic rays and chaired the Nobel physics committee.
Jean Thibaud
Jean Thibaud (1901–1960) was a French experimental physicist who measured the positron's charge and, with Frédéric Joliot, first observed positron annihilation in 1933, later founding the Institut de physique atomique de Lyon.
Louis Leprince-Ringuet
Louis Leprince-Ringuet (1901–2000) was a French physicist and essayist who led major cosmic-ray laboratories, coined "hyperon", and belonged to both the Académie des sciences and the Académie française.
Marcel Schein
Marcel Schein (1902–1960) was a Slovak-born American experimental physicist who became professor at the University of Chicago and studied cosmic rays and mesotron production with balloon flights.
Seth Neddermeyer
Seth Neddermeyer was an American experimental physicist who co-discovered the muon with Carl Anderson at Caltech and championed the implosion design used in the Trinity test and the Fat Man bomb.
Walter Kaufmann (physicist)
Walter Kaufmann (1871–1947) was a German experimental physicist whose 1901–1906 beta-ray experiments first measured electron mass rising with velocity, briefly appearing to refute special relativity.
William Francis Gray Swann
William Francis Gray Swann (1884–1962) was an English-born American physicist who led the Bartol Research Foundation from 1927 to 1959 and served as president of the American Physical Society.