Carl D. Anderson Quotes

Carl D. Anderson — American Scientist born on September 03, 1905, died on January 11, 1991

Carl David Anderson 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... (wikipedia)

Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.

Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.

Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.

Carl D. Anderson Quotes

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