biography
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Anderson, Carl D(avid)
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| lived:
| (1905–91)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in New York City, USA. He studied at the California Institute of Technology (1930–77), and became professor there in 1939, working on gamma and cosmic rays. In 1932 he discovered the positron, for which he shared the 1936 Nobel Prize for Physics (with Victor Hess). In 1937, he and S H Neddermeyer announced their discovery of intermediate-mass subatomic particles called mesons (now muons). |
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