Carl D. Anderson Biography

Carl D. Anderson biography

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NAME: Carl D. Anderson
OCCUPATION: Physicist
BIRTH DATE: September 03, 1905
DEATH DATE: January 11, 1991
EDUCATION: California Institute of Technology
PLACE OF BIRTH: New York, New York
Full Name: Carl David Anderson

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Carl D. Anderson and Victor Francis Hess received the 1936 Nobel Prize for Physics for discovering the positron, or the positively charged electron.

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Carl David Anderson was born on September 3, 1905, in New York City. In 1930, he graduated with a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology. He studied X-ray photoelectrons and later studied gamma rays and cosmic rays. He and Victor Francis Hess received a Nobel Prize for Physics in 1936 for discovering positrons, positively charged particles the same size as electrons.

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