In San Marino, California, at the age of 85
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Carl David Anderson
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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science · American physicist (1905–1991) · physicist · university teacher · also Carl David Anderson, Anderson
Born 3 September 1905 · Died 11 January 1991 · Q169366
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The atom can't be seen, yet its existence can be proved. And it is simple to prove that it can't ever be seen. It has to be studied by indirect evidence — and the technical difficulty has been compared to asking a man who has never seen a piano to describe a piano from the sound it would make falling downstairs in the dark.
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The ideal student would be one who was not working for grades but was working because he was interested in the work and not trying to compete with fellow students.
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1991· 4 entries
Died 1991-01-11.
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“The ideal student would be one who was not working for grades but was working because he was interested in the work and not trying to compete with fellow students.”
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“The atom can't be seen, yet its existence can be proved. And it is simple to prove that it can't ever be seen. It has to be studied by indirect evidence — and the technical difficulty has been compared to asking a man who has never seen a piano to describe a piano from the sound it would make falling downstairs in the dark.”
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1988· 1 entry
Published “Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.” in Psychological Bulletin — cited 31,779 times.
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1946· 1 entry
Anderson married Lorraine Bergman, with whom he had two sons
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1939· 1 entry
A position he held until his retirement in 1976
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1937· 1 entry
Won Elliott Cresson Medal (1937).
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1936· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for his discovery of the positron.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1936).
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Anderson and his first graduate student, Seth Neddermeyer, discovered the muon (or 'mu-meson', as it was known for many years), a subatomic particle 207 times more massive than the electron, but with the same negative el
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1932· 1 entry
And later confirmed by others, validated Paul Dirac's theoretical prediction of the existence of the positron
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1930· 1 entry
Both from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
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1905· 2 entries
Born 1905-09-03.
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In New York City, to Swedish immigrants, Carl David Anderson Sr
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