John Linsley

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title: John Linsley
text: John David Linsley was an American physicist who performed pioneering research on cosmic rays, particularly ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. He did his most significant work from 1959 to 1978 using a ground-based array of detectors at Volcano Ranch in New Mexico. He is best known for being the first to detect an air shower created by a primary particle with an energy of 10⁲⁰ eV. This was the highest energy cosmic ray observed up to that point. Linsley's observations suggested that not all cosmic r
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date created: 2012-08-30T17:25:24Z
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