The discovery of the muon and the failed revolution against quantum electrodynamics / by Peter Galison.
Abstract:
Considers two often competing lines of thought on the nature of cosmic ray research in the early 1930s, one pursued by R. A. Millikan, C. D. Anderson, and some of their colleagues and students, principally at the California Institute of Technology, the other by Bruno Rossi, J. C. Street, and A. H. Compton
Centaurus Vol. 26 (1983), p. 262-316