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Carl David Anderson

1905–1991

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Carl David Anderson (1905–1991) was an American physicist who discovered the positron in 1932, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1936. He also discovered the muon in 1936, a particle that initially puzzled physicists and led to the development of particle physics. Anderson spent most of his career at the California Institute of Technology, where he used cloud chambers and cosmic rays to explore subatomic particles.

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The Positive Electron (1933)
The Apparent Existence of Easily Deflectable Positives (1936)
Cosmic-Ray Particles (1939)
The Discovery of the Positron (1961)
Early Work on the Positron and Muon (1983)

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