Carl David Anderson
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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.
Biography
Anderson was born in
Victor Hess.[2] Fifty years later, Anderson acknowledged that his discovery was inspired by the work of his Caltech classmate Chung-Yao Chao, whose research formed the foundation from which much of Anderson's work developed but was not credited at the time.[3]
Also in 1936, Anderson and his first graduate student,
subatomic particles whose discovery initially baffled theoreticians who could not make the confusing "zoo" fit into some tidy conceptual scheme. Willis Lamb, in his 1955 Nobel Prize Lecture, joked that he had heard it said that "the finder of a new elementary particle used to be rewarded by a Nobel Prize, but such a discovery now ought to be punished by a 10,000 dollar fine."[4]
Anderson spent all of his academic and research career at
Los Angeles, California
. His wife Lorraine died in 1984.
Select publications
- Anderson, C. D. (1933). "The Positive Electron". .
- Anderson, C. D. (1932). "The Apparent Existence of Easily Deflectable Positives". PMID 17731542.
- Anderson, C. D. (technical advisor) (1957). The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays. The Bell Laboratory Science Series.
References
- Decay chains
- ^ The Nobel Prize in Physics 1936. nobelprize.org
- S2CID 144522961.
- ^ Willis E. Lamb, Jr. (December 12, 1955) Fine structure of the hydrogen atom. Nobel Lecture
- ^ "Carl D. Anderson". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved May 18, 2023.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved May 18, 2023.
- ^ "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter A" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved April 17, 2011.
- American Academy of Achievement.
External links
- 1983 Audio Interview with Carl Anderson by Martin Sherwin Voices of the Manhattan Project
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- American National Biography, vol. 1, pp. 445–446.
- Annotated bibliography for Carl David Anderson from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues
- "Carl David Anderson". Find a Grave. Retrieved August 10, 2010.
- Carl Anderson and the Discovery of the Positron
- Carl David Anderson on Nobelprize.org
- National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir
- Oral History interview transcript with Carl D. Anderson on 30 June 1966, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives
- ScienceWorld.
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