Carl David Anderson
Carl David Anderson was an American experimental physicist who shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics with Victor Hess for his discovery of the positron, which confirmed the existence of antimatter.
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Background
- Born in
- New York City
- Educated at
- California Institute of TechnologyJohn H. Francis Polytechnic High School
- Awards
- 🏆 Nobel Prize in Physics🏆 Elliott Cresson Medal🏆 Fellow of the American Physical Society🏆 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Robert A. Millikan🎓 William Ralph Smythe
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Donald Arthur Glaser📖 Seth Neddermeyer
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1905
Born
Birth1991
Died
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