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called him "a boldly innovative experimental physicist whose discoveries in cosmic rays influenced decisively the course of high-energy physics."
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National Academies Press:Biographical Memoirs:Jabez Curry Street;By K. T. Bainbridge, E. M. Purcell, N. F. Ramsey, and K. Strauch
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Navigation System, which is used worldwide for navigation purposes. Street was chairman of the physics department at
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that created ground and ship radar systems. He also directed development of
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and acting director of the Cambridge Electron Accelerator, a member of the
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1962–1963: Harvard-MIT Cambridge Electron Accelerator, Acting Director
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Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
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J. C. Street
physicist
muons
MIT
LORAN
Harvard University
National Academy of Sciences
National Academies Press
Opelika, Alabama
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
University of Virginia
Jesse Wakefield Beams
Harvard University
American Physical Society
E. C. Stevenson
Harvard University
MIT
National Academy of Sciences
Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University
Charleston, South Carolina






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