Everything about Pierre Victor Auger totally explained
Pierre Victor Auger (
May 14,
1899 –
December 25,
1993) was a French
physicist, born in
Paris. He worked in the fields of
atomic physics,
nuclear physics and
cosmic ray physics.
The Auger process where
Auger electrons are emitted from
atoms was named after him, despite the fact that
Lise Meitner discovered the process a few years before in 1923.
In his work with cosmic rays, he found that the cosmic radiation events were coincident in time meaning that they were associated with a single event, an
air shower. He estimated that the energy of the incoming particle that creates large air showers must be at least 10
15 electronvolts (eV) = 10
6 particles of 10
8 eV (critical energy in air) and a factor of ten for energy loss from traversing the atmosphere (Auger
et al., 1939).
The world's largest cosmic ray detector, the
Pierre Auger Observatory, is named after him.
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