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 particle physicist (1905–1991)
Biography
Carl David Anderson was an American particle physicist who shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics with Victor Francis Hess for his discovery of the positron.