Celestial Messengers

1. Cosmic Rays: Prologue
Mario Bertolotti

2. The Discovery: Victor F. Hess and the Balloon Ascents
Mario Bertolotti

3. The Confirmation: Millikan and the “Birth Cry” of Created Atoms
Mario Bertolotti

4. A Turn: Things are not as they are Assumed to be
Mario Bertolotti

5. The Earth’s Magnetic Field and the Geomagnetic Effects
Mario Bertolotti

6. The Positive Electron (Positron)
Mario Bertolotti

7. Electromagnetic Showers
Mario Bertolotti

8. The Muon
Mario Bertolotti

9. The Discovery of the π Meson, the Nuclear Emulsions, and the First “Strange” Particles
Mario Bertolotti

10. The Extended Showers
Mario Bertolotti

11. The Neutrino or, More Precisely, the Neutrinos: Elusive and Weird Particles, Able to Arrive from Very Far Away
Mario Bertolotti

12. Which are the Primary Cosmic Rays?
Mario Bertolotti

13. The Origin of Cosmic Rays
Mario Bertolotti

Keywords: Physics, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics, Particle and Nuclear Physics, Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Popular Science in Mathematics/Computer Science/Natural Science/Technology