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Scientific notation is like shorthand for writing very large or very small numbers. Instead of writing the number in decimal form, the number is shortened to a number multiplied by a power of ten.

The British physicist Patrick M. S. Blackett (1897-1974) used a modified Wilson cloud chamber to obtain the first photographs of the tracks left by the particles involved in a nuclear disintegration as well as those produced by showers of cosmic rays.