Kenneth Greisen

Greisen's photo on his security badge at Los Alamos

Kenneth Ingvard Greisen (24 January 1918 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey – 17 March 2007 in Ithaca, New York)[1] was an American physicist who worked on nuclear physics and the astrophysics of cosmic rays and gamma radiation. "He will be most remembered for his realization that the cosmic microwave background limits the high-energy end of the spectrum of cosmic ray protons."[2]

  1. ^ birth dates and career information on American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ David Cassel; Edith Cassel; Donald Holcomb (2007). "Kenneth Ingvard Gresien". Phys. Today. 60 (7): 78–79. Bibcode:2007PhT....60g..78C. doi:10.1063/1.2761816.