Title: Carl Anderson and Seth Neddermeyer with magnet cloud chamber
Original Format: photograph: print
Description: This piece of equipment was used by Anderson to discover the positron--the first empirical evidence for the existence of antimatter--in 1932. Four years later they announced the discvery of mesons (muons). Housed in the Guggenheim Aeronautical Lab, the apparatus was in service for seventeen years. Photo from E&S, Caltech Office of Public Relations.
Agent Subjects: Anderson, Carl D.
Topic Subjects: Physicists
Collection: Photograph Collection
Series/File: Individuals, Anderson, Carl D.
Caltech Archives ID: 1.2-24
