Carl David Anderson

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.

3 September 1905

Born on the same birth date (3 September 1905): John Mills (New Zealand cricketer)

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