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An Italian school of high-energy astrophysics: A personal view from the sixties to Beppo-SAX

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The Scientific Legacy of Beppo Occhialini

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Years after their discovery (V. F. Hess in 1911), thanks to the penetrating and energetic particles they produce in the atmosphere, cosmic rays attracted the attention of physicists as a natural laboratory to investigate the existence of new particles, which could not be produced with the artificial accelerators of the time (mainly in the years 1930–1950). Beppo Occhialini was one of them, and his ingenuity in exploiting this potential is described elsewhere in this book.

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  2. Dipartimento di Fisica “G. Occhialini”, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza, 3, 20186, Milano, Italy

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Giuseppe Cesare, P. (2006). An Italian school of high-energy astrophysics: A personal view from the sixties to Beppo-SAX. In: Redondi, P., Sironi, G., Tucci, P., Vegni, G. (eds) The Scientific Legacy of Beppo Occhialini. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-37354-4_13

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