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 ...
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Carl David Anderson discovered two of the elementary particles of matter--the positron ("positive electron") and the meson, also known as muon (identical to the negatively charged electron in almost e...
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Anderson was born in New York City on September 3, 1905. He earned his bachelor of science degree in physics and engineering at the California Institute of Technology in 1927 and his Ph.D. from the sa...
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Carl David Anderson
Carl David Anderson
Carl David Anderson