J. Curry Street

Jabez Curry Street (May 5, 1906 – November 7, 1989) was an American physicist, a co-discoverer of atomic particles called muons.

Street was also notable for heading the group at the wartime Radiation Laboratory at MIT that created ground and ship radar systems. 1932–1970: Harvard University, Instructor to Professor of Physics 1937: discovers muons with E. C. Stevenson at Harvard University 1940–1945: MIT Radiation Laboratory, Researcher 1953: elected to the National Academy of Sciences 1955–1960: Harvard University, Chair, Department of Physics 1962–1963: Harvard-MIT Cambridge Electron Accelerator, Acting Director 1970–1976: Harvard University, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics 1976: retired 1976–1989: Harvard University, Emeritus Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics November 7, 1989: died in Charleston, South Carolina