About Leslie Hodson
Lived 1925 – 2010 (aged 84). Leslie Hodson was a physicist.
Leslie Hodson (born Fishlake 15 July 1925 – died Leeds 1 March 2010) was an English physicist who discovered the kaon (K+ meson) sub-atomic particle in 1954.
Hodson was educated at Thorne Grammar School and the University of Manchester. After three years as a research associate at Princeton he became a lecturer at the University of Leeds. He retired in 1990.
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British physicist
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Leslie Hodson was born on 15 July 1925.
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Leslie Hodson died on 1 March 2010.
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Leslie Hodson was a physicist.
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