The Picture That Was Not Reversed

Author: Cowan, Eugene

Published in: Engineering and Science, Volume 46, Number 2, 1982, pp. 6-28

Part of: Engineering and Science, Volume 46:2, November 1982

Item Category: Feature Articles

Persistent URL: https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechES:46.2.Cowan

Abstract

A three-part story that begins with Carl Anderson's discovery of the positron, is followed by a commentary by Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman and quotations from the scientific literature of the early 1930s, and finishes with a few not-so-scientific items.

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