The Nobel Prize in Physics 1936
Awarded on: 1936-11-12
"for his discovery of the positron"
Affiliations:
- California Institute of Technology (Caltech) – Pasadena, CA, USA
Carl David Anderson
Born: 1905-09-03 in New York, NY, USA
Gender: male
Field: American experimental physicist (1905–1991)
Biography
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.