Word: forbush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tunnel from the Sun. There may be many different primary rays. Some, thinks Dr. S. E. Forbush of the Carnegie Institution, may come from the sun. There are plenty of high-speed particles in the sun, but ordinarily they cannot escape into space because of the sun's powerful magnetic field. But sunspots, which are whirling solar hurricanes, have magnetic fields of their own. Sometimes these cancel the sun's general field, making a narrow, nonmagnetic tunnel through which the particles escape. Dr. Forbush claimed to have observed sudden increases of cosmic radiation when such a tunnel happened...
...whom are second-year students, are John E. Anderson, Minneapolis, Minn.; Howard L. Beer, Buffalo, N. Y.; Thorton F. Bradshaw, Cambridge, Mass.; Joseph I. Cokper, Brookline, Mass.; William G. Fisher, Calgary, Alberia, Canada; Dascomb R. Forbush, Appleton, Wis.; John C. Rumble, Emory University, Ga.; Joseph Sondheimer, Muskogee, Okla.; Herbert F. Stewart, New York, N. Y.; and Paul E. Trimble, Belmont, Mass...