"Who ordered that?"?

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"Who ordered that?"?

When a famous Nobel prize winner found out someone had discovered the Muon, he is quoted as saying, "Who ordered that?"
What was the Muon he was talking about and who said it?

2006-11-18 03:18:19 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science

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When the heavy electron known as the muon was accidentally discovered in the late 1930s, Nobel physicist Isidor Isaac Rabi famously remarked, "Who ordered that?"

2006-11-18 03:20:49 · answer #1 · answered by ~brigit~ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋

The muon is an elementary particle with negative electric charge discovered by Carl D. Anderson in 1936

2006-11-19 02:31:15 · answer #2 · answered by Pendragon 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋

Isidor Isaac Rabi what a great guy lol the muon was quite special

2006-11-18 03:22:30 · answer #3 · answered by insane_artiste 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋