DISCOVERY OF THE POSITRON

ANDERSON, CARL D.

The Positive Electron.

(New York, For the American Physical Society by the American Inst. of Physics), 1933.

4to. No wrappers as issued in "Physical Review, vol. 43, March 13, 1933" pp. 491-494. and with 4 textillustr.

First edition. The paper announces the discovery of the first antiparticle ever found. The existance of the positron was predicted by Dirac 3 years before. Anderson was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1936 "For his Discovery of the Positron".

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