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Anderson, Carl David (1905–1991)


Carl Anderson
American physicist who shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics, with Victor Hess, for his discovery of the positron (anti-electron) while studying cosmic rays. This was the first known particle of antimatter. He was later also involved in the discovery of the muon.


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