Carl David Anderson (1905-1991)

Awarded the Prize “for his discovery of the positron.”

American physicist. Anderson was born in New York City on September 3, 1905. He graduated from the California Institute of Technology in 1927 with a B.Sc. degree in Physics Engineering, was awarded his Ph.D. degree by the same Institute in 1930. For the period 1930-1933 he was Research Fellow there, subsequently Assistant Professor of Physics, Professor of Physics. Anderson died in San Marino, California on January 11, 1991.