Greek Small Letter Gamma
Part of Greek Letters
Greek Small Letter Gamma has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- γ
- Unicode
- U+03B3
About this symbol
In 1900 the French chemist Paul Villard found a third kind of radiation from radium that was far more penetrating than the other two. Ernest Rutherford named it gamma in 1903, following alpha and beta, and the name gamma rays has stuck.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- GREEK SMALL LETTER GAMMA
- Type
- Lowercase letter
- Unicode block
- Greek and Coptic
- Unicode group
- Letters
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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