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Carl David Anderson (September 3, 1905 – January 11, 1991) was an American physicist. He is best known for his discovery of the positron in 1932, an achievement for which he received the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics, and of the muon in 1936.
Aug 30, 2024 · Carl David Anderson was an American physicist who, with Victor Francis Hess of Austria, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1936 for his discovery of the positron, or positive electron, the first known particle of antimatter.
Jan 11, 1991 · Biographical. Carl David Anderson, who was born of Swedish parents – his father was Carl David Anderson and his mother Emma Adolfina Ajaxson – in New York City (USA) on 3rd September, 1905, has spent the bulk of his life in the United States.
Jan 12, 1991 · Nobel Prize-winning physicist Carl David Anderson, whose discovery of the subatomic particle known as the positron proved the existence of antimatter, died Friday at his San Marino home after a...
Jan 11, 1991 · The Nobel Prize in Physics 1936. Born: 3 September 1905, New York, NY, USA. Died: 11 January 1991, San Marino, CA, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA. Prize motivation: “for his discovery of the positron”. Prize share: 1/2.
May 21, 2018 · The American physicist Carl David Anderson (1905-1991) opened up the whole field of particle physics for research by his discoveries of the first known antiparticle, the positron, and of the meson. On September 3, 1905, Carl Daveid Anderson was born in New York City of Swedish ancestry.
BEST KNOWN FOR HIS discovery of the positive electron, or positron, Carl David Anderson was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1936 at age thirty-one. The discovery of the positron was the first of the new particles of modern physics.
Carl Anderson graduated from the California Institute of Technology in 1927 with a B.Sc. degree in Physics and Engineering, and was awarded his Ph.D. degree by the same, in 1930. His early research was in the field of X-rays.
Dec 5, 2015 · Carl David Anderson (September 3, 1905 – January 11, 1991) was an American physicist. He is best known for his discovery of the positron in 1932, an achievement for which he received the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics, and of the muon in 1936.
Carl David Anderson, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1936 at age 31, was born in New York City on September 3, 1905. He was the only son of Swedish immigrant parents. The family moved to Los Angeles in 1912 where Anderson attended local public schools.
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