Carl Anderson
- Born: September 3, 1905 (New York, New York)
- Died: January 11, 1991 (San Marino, California)
Education
- 1927: BS, California Institute of Technology
- 1930: PhD, California Institute of Technology
Major Positions
- 1930–1933: California Institute of Technology, Research Fellow
- 1933–1939: California Institute of Technology, Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Physics
- 1939–1976: California Institute of Technology, Professor of Physics
- 1977–1991: California Institute of Technology, Emeritus Professor of Physics
Other Positions
- 1962–1970: California Institute of Technology, Chair, Division of Physics Mathematics and Astronomy
Selected Part-Time Positions
- 1963–1966: Chair, Physics Section, National Academy of Sciences
Selected Awards and Honors
Archival Resources
California Institute of Technology, Institute Archives, Pasadena, California
Online Finding Aid
Oral History Interviews
- 1966: Available Online
- 1979: Available Online
Resources on the Web
Published Resources
William H. Pickering, "Carl David Anderson: 1905-1991", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences
Carl David Anderson, edited by Richard J. Weiss, The Discovery of Anti-Matter: The Autobiography of Carl David Anderson, the Youngest Man to Win the Nobel Prize (River Edge, NJ: World Scientific, 1999)
Carl D. Anderson, with Herbert L. Anderson, "Unraveling the Particle Content of Cosmic Rays," in The Birth of Particle Physics, ed. Laurie M. Brown and Lillian Hoddeson (New York: Cambridge University Press: 1983), 131-154
