Symposium on Cosmic Rays held at the University of Chicago, June 1939

Compton, A.H.; Victor Hess, Millikan, Neddermeyer, Carl Anderson, Swann, PMS Blackett, Bruno Rossi, and many others Symposium on Cosmic Rays held at the University of Chicago, June 1939. American Physical Society. This is the full issue of July-October 1939 of Reviews of Modern Physics, vol 11 nos. 3-4, pp 122-303. Original wrappers. Near-FINE copy. [++] "Cosmic ray research had a distinguished history at the University of Chicago in the 1930's through the work of A.H. Compton, M. Schein and their associates. The participants who attended the International Cosmic Ray Conference [the paper offered here] at the University in the summer of 1939 which reveals the broad, intellectual interest in both the elementary particle and the astrophysical/geophysical aspects of cosmic rays in the 1930's (Symposium, 1939). Soon thereafter these fields of research were disrupted by World War II, and it was not until well into 1946 that cosmic ray research again became established throughout the world."--John Simpson, Cosmic Ray Astrophysics (Some Personal reminiscences); Cosmic Ray Physics at Chicago, 1947-1960.…