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Also Known As	nuclear emulsion

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radiation passive detector bubble chamber spark chamber solid-state detector cloud chamber dosimeter scintillation counter electromagnetic radiation ionizing radiation synchrotron radiation coincidence counting

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Powell, Cecil Frank

Cecil Frank Powell

British physicist

Césare Mansueto Giulio Lattes

Brazilian physicist

Maurice Goldhaber

American physicist