| Carl David Anderson  Born: 3-Sep-1905
Birthplace: New York City
Died: 11-Jan-1991
Location of death: San Marino, CA
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills, CA
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Discovered the positron, mu-meson Father: Carl David Anderson
Mother: Emma Adolfina Ajaxson
Wife: Lorraine Bergman (m. 1946, two sons)
Son: Marshall
Son: David
University: BS, California Institute of Technology (1927)
University: PhD, California Institute of Technology (1930)
Scholar: Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology (1930-33)
Teacher: California Institute of Technology (1933-39)
Professor: California Institute of Technology (1939-76)
Nobel Prize for Physics 1936 (with Victor Francis Hess)
American Philosophical Society
National Academy of Sciences
Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society
Swedish Ancestry
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