Dr. Marcel Schein, cosmic ray expert of the University of Chicago and consultant to the General Electric Laboratory, was credited here today with producing, for the first time in history, the meson, one of the chief constituents of cosmic rays. He is one of the four experts whose work is considered one of the most important discoveries since the splitting of the uranium atom.
Scientists agreed that the experiments by Dr. Schein and his three colleagues had succeeded in opening much wider the vast field of atomic energy, making possible a considerably better understanding of the whole subject of nuclear forces. It was revealed that Dr. Schein and his associates had been experimenting for over a period of five years.
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