Carl David Anderson
American physicist
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Updated 2026-05-29
Discovered the positron in 1932 and proved antimatter was real, landing Carl David Anderson a 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics alongside Victor Hess. His experimental work in cosmic ray physics rewrote the rulebook.
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Carl David Anderson was an American experimental physicist who shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics with Victor Hess for his discovery of the positron, which confirmed the existence of antimatter.
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