Carl David Anderson

“for his discovery of

the positron”-1936
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 Index

• Carl David Anderson biography

• Theoretical prediction of the positron- Dirac equation
• Wilson chamber
• Working with Millikan
• The discovery of the positron
• Modern Applications of Anderson’s Discovery
Carl David Anderson

• Gold Medal of the American Institute of City of

New York (1935);
• Sc.D. of Colgate University (1937);
• Elliott Cresson Medal of the Franklin Institute
(1937);
• Presidential Certificate of Merit (1945);
• LL.D. Temple University (1949);
• John Ericsson Medal of the American Society of
Swedish Engineers (1960);
Theoretical prediction of
the positron :
Dirac equation

“A hole, if there were one [in the world],

would be a new kind of particle, unknown to experimental
physics, having the same mass and
opposite charge to an electron.
We may call such a particle an anti-electron.”
Wilson chamber
Working
with
Millikan

F = q(E + v × B)
The
discovery of
the positron
Case 1 : Proton;
Case 2 : Two dinstinct electrons;
Case 3: A photon and two particles;
Modern
Applications
of Anderson
Discovery:
The PET scan