Carl D. Anderson Ph.D.
Carl D. Anderson Ph.D.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1936
Co-Nobelist Victor F. Hess
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Name: Carl David Anderson
Birth: 3 September 1905, New York, NY, USA
Death: 11 January 1991, San Marino, CA, USA
Institution: California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA
Award: “for his discovery of the positron”
Subject: particle physics
Portion of Cash: 1/2
Award: “for his discovery of the positron.”
Biography
A biographical memoir by William H. Pickering, National Academy of Sciences bio 15 pages, 16 pages total.