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This is a largely personal account of the development of the study of the neutrons associated with the cosmic radiation during the first twenty five years. We shall refer to the work done since 1960 only briefly, where necessary to complete the logic. Post-1960 work has been reviewed by others elsewhere. The convenient stopping-date of this account comes just about at the termination of the International Geophysical Year 1957–58, which led to a great expansion of our knowledge in this field and to the establishment of the international chain of neutron monitors. The references in this work are cited as pertinent to the text. Many other persons have worked in this field, and the author hopes that those not cited, for reasons of economy of space, will not think that the author is not appreciative of their contributions.
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Korff, S.A. (1985). Cosmic Ray Neutrons, 1934–59. In: Sekido, Y., Elliot, H. (eds) Early History of Cosmic Ray Studies. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 118. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5434-2_26
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