Anderson, Carl David (1905-91), American physicist and Nobel laureate. Anderson was born in New York City and educated at the California Institute of Technology, where he attained full professorial rank in 1939. In 1932 he discovered the positron, or positive electron, one of the fundamental subatomic particles. For this achievement he was awarded, with Victor Franz Hess, the 1936 Nobel Prize in physics. In 1936 Anderson also confirmed experimentally the existence of the elementary nuclear particle called the meson, which had been predicted in 1935 by the Japanese physicist Yukawa Hideki.
Encyclopedia Blog For Kid's Research In Sciences, Health, Environment and Technology
Showing posts with label Anderson Carl David. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anderson Carl David. Show all posts
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
-
Atomic clock, electric or electronic timekeeping device that is controlled by atomic or molecular oscillations. A timekeeping device must co...
-
Forestry is the art and science of managing forests, tree plantations , and related natural resources. The main goal of forestry is to crea...
-
Anatomy (Greek anatomē, “dissection”), branch of natural science dealing with the structural organization of living things. It is an old sc...