Nobel Prize in Physics (1936) Elliott Cresson Medal (1937)
Scientific career
Fields
Physics
Institutions
California Institute of Technology
Thesis
Space-distribution of x-ray photoelectrons ejected from the K and L atomic energy-levels(1930)
Doctoral advisor
Robert A. Millikan
Other academic advisors
William Smythe
Doctoral students
Donald A. Glaser
Seth Neddermeyer
James C. Fletcher
Other notable students
Cinna Lomnitz
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.
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CarlDavidAnderson (September 3, 1905 – January 11, 1991) was an American physicist. He is best known for his discovery of the positron in 1932, an achievement...
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discovering charged particle cosmic rays, for which he is credited in CarlDavidAnderson's Nobel lecture. Skobeltzyn did observe likely positron tracks on...
which has about 1,836 times the mass of the electron. Yukawa or CarlDavidAnderson, who discovered the muon, had originally named the particle the "mesotron"...
15P emits a positron identical to those found in cosmic rays by CarlDavidAnderson in 1932. This was the first example of β+ decay (positron emission)...
Butenandt (Chemistry, 1939), Gerhard Domagk (Physiology or Medicine, 1939) and Carl von Ossietzky (Peace, 1936) from accepting their Nobel Prizes. The Chinese...
(1901–1958) Walter Houser Brattain (1902–1987) Pavel Cherenkov (1904–1990) CarlDavidAnderson (1905–1991) Felix Bloch (1905–1983) Ernst Ruska (1906–1988) John...
director for ARPA-E. Notable Caltech alumni include: Nobel laureate CarlDavidAnderson, BS 1927, PhD 1930, discoverer of the positron and the muon Nobel...
usually not included in most lists: Glenn T. Seaborg (Sjöborg) and CarlDavidAnderson, both phycisists. "The Nobel Prize". NobelPrize.org. Archived from...
which he called it the "electrum". Other sources incorrectly credit CarlAnderson as having predicted its existence in 1932 while at Caltech. It was experimentally...
by CarlDavidAnderson. Hess and Anderson shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics. Lieben Prize (1919) Abbe Memorial Prize Abbe Medal of the Carl Zeiss...
distinct. In 1932, soon after the prediction of positrons by Paul Dirac, Carl D. Anderson found that cosmic-ray collisions produced these particles in a cloud...
of the positron in 1932 (see Fig. 1) and the muon in 1936, both by CarlAnderson (awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1936), used cloud chambers. Discovery...
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Blunt (2001), pp. 36–37. Anderson (1997), p. 40. Anderson (1997), pp. 42–43. Blunt (2001), p. 38. Black, David, ed. (1979). Carl Linnaeus Travels. Charles...
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objects on the scale of hectometers to kilometers. Twenty years after CarlDavidAnderson and Seth Neddermeyer discovered that muons were generated from cosmic...