Etymology

Hanbury-Brown-Twiss effect

Today it means: Any of a variety of correlation and anticorrelation effects in the intensities received by two detectors from a beam of particles. Full definition →

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The story

Named after Robert Hanbury Brown and Richard Q. Twiss.

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