Hypernucleus
Hipernúcleo
- Date
- 1952 · confidence high
- Place
- Warsaw, Poland
- Credited to
- Jerzy Pniewski y Marian Danysz
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
Atomic nucleus containing at least one hyperon in addition to protons and neutrons; discovered by Marian Danysz and Jerzy Pniewski through analysis of cosmic-ray photographic emulsions.
What it led to
- The physics of hyperons and strange particles
- Studies of hypernuclei at particle accelerators
- Understanding of the nuclear force with strangeness