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Carl David Anderson

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Carl David Anderson (September 3, 1905 – January 11, 1991) was an American physicist. [1]

76 relations: Alexandru Proca, Anderson (surname), Antimatter, Antiparticle, Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, August 2, Beta decay, Bruno Rossi, California Institute of Technology, Carl Anderson, Chung-Yao Chao, Clifford Charles Butler, Cloud chamber, Continental Classroom, December 1936, Dirac equation, Dirac sea, Donald A. Glaser, Electron, Emilio Segrè, Experimental physics, Index of physics articles (C), Irène Joliot-Curie, J. Robert Oppenheimer, James C. Fletcher, January 11, John C. Lilly, John H. Francis Polytechnic High School, Lepton, List of California Institute of Technology people, List of interments at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills), List of Nobel laureates by country, List of Nobel laureates by university affiliation, List of Nobel laureates in Physics, List of physicists, List of Swedish Americans, Marcello Conversi, Martin Deutsch, Meson, Muography, Muon, Muon spin spectroscopy, Negative energy, Nobel Prize controversies, One World or None, Paul Dirac, Positron, Positron emission, Positronium, Relativistic quantum mechanics, ..., Robert Bacher, Rolf Heinrich Sabersky, Rose Bowl (stadium), September 3, Seth Neddermeyer, Subatomic particle, The World of Science (Golden book), Timeline of atomic and subatomic physics, Timeline of fundamental physics discoveries, Timeline of particle discoveries, Timeline of particle physics, Timeline of physical chemistry, Timeline of quantum mechanics, Timeline of theoretical physics, Timeline of United States discoveries, Victor Francis Hess, Werner Heisenberg, William Smythe (physicist), 1905, 1905 in science, 1932, 1932 in science, 1936, 1936 in science, 1991, 1991 in the United States. Expand index (26 more) »

Alexandru Proca

Alexandru Proca (October 16, 1897, Bucharest – December 13, 1955, Paris) was a Romanian physicist who studied and worked in France.

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Anderson (surname)

Anderson is a surname deriving from a patronymic meaning "son of Anders/Andrew" (itself derived from the Greek name "Andreas", meaning "man" or "manly").

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Antimatter

In modern physics, antimatter is defined as a material composed of the antiparticle (or "partners") to the corresponding particles of ordinary matter.

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Antiparticle

In particle physics, every type of particle has an associated antiparticle with the same mass but with opposite physical charges (such as electric charge).

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Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology

Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology is a history of science by Isaac Asimov, written as the biographies of over 1500 scientists.

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August 2

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Beta decay

In nuclear physics, beta decay (β-decay) is a type of radioactive decay in which a beta ray (fast energetic electron or positron) and a neutrino are emitted from an atomic nucleus.

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Bruno Rossi

Bruno Benedetto Rossi (13 April 1905 – 21 November 1993) was an Italian experimental physicist.

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California Institute of Technology

The California Institute of Technology (abbreviated Caltech)The university itself only spells its short form as "Caltech"; other spellings such as.

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Carl Anderson

Carl Anderson may refer to.

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Chung-Yao Chao

Chung-Yao Chao (27 June 1902 – 28 May 1998) was a Chinese physicist.

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Clifford Charles Butler

Sir Clifford Charles Butler FRS (20 May 1922 – 30 June 1999) was an English physicist, best known for the discovery of the hyperon and meson types of particles.

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Cloud chamber

A Cloud Chamber, also known as a Wilson Cloud Chamber, is a particle detector used for visualizing the passage of ionizing radiation.

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Continental Classroom

Continental Classroom is a US educational television program that was broadcast on the NBC network five days a week in the early morning from 1958 to 1963, covering physics, chemistry, mathematics, and American government.

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December 1936

The following events occurred in December 1936.

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Dirac equation

In particle physics, the Dirac equation is a relativistic wave equation derived by British physicist Paul Dirac in 1928.

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Dirac sea

The Dirac sea is a theoretical model of the vacuum as an infinite sea of particles with negative energy.

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Donald A. Glaser

Donald Arthur Glaser (September 21, 1926 – February 28, 2013) was an American physicist, neurobiologist, and the winner of the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of the bubble chamber used in subatomic particle physics.

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Electron

The electron is a subatomic particle, symbol or, whose electric charge is negative one elementary charge.

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Emilio Segrè

Emilio Gino Segrè (1 February 1905 – 22 April 1989) was an Italian-American physicist and Nobel laureate, who discovered the elements technetium and astatine, and the antiproton, a subatomic antiparticle, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959.

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Experimental physics

Experimental physics is the category of disciplines and sub-disciplines in the field of physics that are concerned with the observation of physical phenomena and experiments.

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Index of physics articles (C)

The index of physics articles is split into multiple pages due to its size.

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Irène Joliot-Curie

Irène Joliot-Curie (12 September 1897 – 17 March 1956) was a French scientist, the daughter of Marie Curie and Pierre Curie and the wife of Frédéric Joliot-Curie.

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J. Robert Oppenheimer

Julius Robert Oppenheimer (April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley.

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James C. Fletcher

James Chipman Fletcher (June 5, 1919 – December 22, 1991) served as the 4th and 7th Administrator of NASA, first from April 27, 1971 to May 1, 1977, under President Richard M. Nixon, and again from May 12, 1986 to April 8, 1989, under President Ronald Reagan.

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January 11

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John C. Lilly

Dr John Cunningham Lilly (January 6, 1915 – September 30, 2001) was an American physician, neuroscientist, psychoanalyst, psychonaut, philosopher, writer and inventor.

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John H. Francis Polytechnic High School

John H. Francis Polytechnic High School is a secondary school located in the Sun Valley neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Lepton

In particle physics, a lepton is an elementary particle of half-integer spin (spin) that does not undergo strong interactions.

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List of California Institute of Technology people

The California Institute of Technology has had numerous notable alumni and faculty.

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List of interments at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)

Many prominent persons, especially from the entertainment industry, are interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) California.

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List of Nobel laureates by country

This is a list of Nobel Prize laureates by country.

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List of Nobel laureates by university affiliation

This list of Nobel laureates by university affiliation shows comprehensively the university affiliations of individual winners of the Nobel Prize and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences since 1901 (as of 2017, 892 individual laureates in total).

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List of Nobel laureates in Physics

The Nobel Prize in Physics (Nobelpriset i fysik) is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of physics.

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List of physicists

Following is a list of physicists who are notable for their achievements.

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List of Swedish Americans

The following is a list of notable Swedish Americans. Including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.

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Marcello Conversi

Marcello Conversi (August 25, 1917 — September 22, 1988) was an Italian particle physicist.

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Martin Deutsch

Martin Deutsch (29 January 1917 – 16 August 2002) was an Austrian-American physicist, who was emeritus professor of physics at MIT.

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Meson

In particle physics, mesons are hadronic subatomic particles composed of one quark and one antiquark, bound together by strong interactions.

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Muography

Muography is an imaging technique that produces a projectional image of a target volume by recording elementary particles, called muons, either electronically or chemically with materials that are sensitive to charged particles such as nuclear emulsions.

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Muon

The muon (from the Greek letter mu (μ) used to represent it) is an elementary particle similar to the electron, with an electric charge of −1 e and a spin of 1/2, but with a much greater mass.

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Muon spin spectroscopy

Muon spin spectroscopy is an experimental technique based on the implantation of spin-polarized muons in matter and on the detection of the influence of the atomic, molecular or crystalline surroundings on their spin motion.

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Negative energy

Negative energy is a concept used in physics to explain the nature of certain fields, including the gravitational field and various quantum field effects.

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Nobel Prize controversies

After his death in 1896, the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel established the Nobel Prizes.

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One World or None

One World or None (1946) is a instructional documentary short film produced by the National Committee on Atomic Information in conjunction with Philip Ragan Productions.

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Paul Dirac

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (8 August 1902 – 20 October 1984) was an English theoretical physicist who is regarded as one of the most significant physicists of the 20th century.

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Positron

The positron or antielectron is the antiparticle or the antimatter counterpart of the electron.

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Positron emission

Positron emission or beta plus decay (β+ decay) is a subtype of radioactive decay called beta decay, in which a proton inside a radionuclide nucleus is converted into a neutron while releasing a positron and an electron neutrino (νe).

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Positronium

Positronium (Ps) is a system consisting of an electron and its anti-particle, a positron, bound together into an exotic atom, specifically an onium.

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Relativistic quantum mechanics

In physics, relativistic quantum mechanics (RQM) is any Poincaré covariant formulation of quantum mechanics (QM).

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Robert Bacher

Robert Fox Bacher (August 31, 1905 – November 18, 2004) was an American nuclear physicist and one of the leaders of the Manhattan Project.

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Rolf Heinrich Sabersky

Rolf Heinrich Sabersky (October 20, 1920 – October 24, 2016) was professor emeritus in mechanical engineering at Caltech.

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Rose Bowl (stadium)

The Rose Bowl is a United States outdoor athletic stadium, located in Pasadena, California, a northeast suburb of Los Angeles.

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September 3

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Seth Neddermeyer

Seth Henry Neddermeyer (September 16, 1907 – January 29, 1988) was an American physicist who co-discovered the muon, and later championed the Implosion-type nuclear weapon while working on the Manhattan Project at the Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II.

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Subatomic particle

In the physical sciences, subatomic particles are particles much smaller than atoms.

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The World of Science (Golden book)

The World of Science was a youth-oriented science book first published in 1958 under the Golden Books imprint.

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Timeline of atomic and subatomic physics

A timeline of atomic and subatomic physics.

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Timeline of fundamental physics discoveries

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Timeline of particle discoveries

This is a timeline of subatomic particle discoveries, including all particles thus far discovered which appear to be elementary (that is, indivisible) given the best available evidence.

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Timeline of particle physics

The timeline of particle physics lists the sequence of particle physics theories and discoveries in chronological order.

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Timeline of physical chemistry

The timeline of physical chemistry lists the sequence of physical chemistry theories and discoveries in chronological order.

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Timeline of quantum mechanics

This timeline of quantum mechanics shows the key steps, precursors and contributors to the development of quantum mechanics, quantum field theories and quantum chemistry.

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Timeline of theoretical physics

The Timeline of theoretical physics lists key events by century.

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Timeline of United States discoveries

Timeline of United States discoveries encompasses the breakthroughs of human thought and knowledge of new scientific findings, phenomena, places, things, and what was previously unknown to exist.

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Victor Francis Hess

Victor Franz Hess (24 June 188317 December 1964) was an Austrian-American physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics, who discovered cosmic rays.

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Werner Heisenberg

Werner Karl Heisenberg (5 December 1901 – 1 February 1976) was a German theoretical physicist and one of the key pioneers of quantum mechanics.

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William Smythe (physicist)

William Ralph Smythe (1893–1988) was a physicist at California Institute of Technology.

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1905

As the second year of the massive Russo-Japanese War began, more than 100,000 died in the largest world battles of that era, and the war chaos lead to a revolution against the Tsar (Shostakovich's 11th Symphony is subtitled The Year 1905 to commemorate this).

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1905 in science

The year 1905 in science and technology involved some significant events, particularly in physics, listed below.

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1932

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1932 in science

The year 1932 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

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1936

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1936 in science

The year 1936 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

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1991

It was the year that is usually considered the final year of the Cold War that had begun in the late 1940s.

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1991 in the United States

Events from the year 1991 in the United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_David_Anderson

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