Leslie Hodson (born

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15 July 1925 – died

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1 March 2010) was an

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physicist who discovered the kaon (K+ meson) sub-atomic particle in 1954. Hodson was educated at Thorne Grammar School and the

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...

. After three years as a research associate at

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he became a

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at the

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. He retired in 1990.

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1925 births 2010 deaths 20th-century British physicists People educated at Thorne Grammar School Alumni of the University of Manchester Academics of the University of Leeds {{UK-physicist-stub