Anderson, Carl D. (Carl David), 1905-1991
Oral history interview with Carl Anderson, 1966 June 30.
Work during the 1930s with particles of high energy involved in nuclear reactions; discovery of the positive electron; pair production work with gamma rays, his expedition to Pike's Peak with Seth H. Neddermeyer; Nobel Prize in 1936. Absence of cosmic ray work at Caltech during the war years; final development of cosmic ray work at Caltech with Robert Millikan into high energy physics; relations with University of California at Berkeley. Also prominently mentioned are: Patrick M. S. Blackett, Paul A. M. Dirac, Frďeric Joliot, Robert A. Millikan, and Hideki Yukawa.
Anderson, Carl David, 1905-1991.
Anderson, Carl D. (Carl David), 1905-1991
Blackett, P. M. S. (Patrick Maynard Stuart), Baron Blackett, 1897-1974
Dirac, P. A. M. (Paul Adrien Maurice), 1902-1984
Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953.
Neddermeyer, Seth H. (Seth Henry), 1907-1988
Yukawa, Hideki, 1907-1981
California Institute of Technology
University of California, Berkeley.
Cosmic rays
Electrons.
Gamma rays.
Mesons.
Nobel Prizes.
Nuclear physics.
Pair production.
Particles (Nuclear physics)
Positrons.
Oral histories. aat
Interviews. aat
Transcripts. aat
Sound recordings lcgft
Weiner, Charles interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA