Carl Anderson
Type: Person
As of November 2026, Carl Anderson has been mentioned in 2 episodes across 2 podcasts, first heard Dec 2025 on CERN. Mentioned as the experimental physicist who discovered the positron in 1932, presented as the physical realization of the Dirac equation’s second solution.
Carl David Anderson was an American experimental physicist who shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics with Victor Hess for his discovery of the positron, which confirmed the existence of antimatter.
| Mentioned in | 2 episodes on 2 podcasts (as of November 2026) |
|---|---|
| First heard | Dec 2025 on CERN |
| Role | Experimental physicist |
| Affiliation | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) (historical) |
How do different shows talk about Carl Anderson?
2 shows discussed Carl Anderson in these episodes.
- CERN — 1 episode
Four years later in 1932, Carl Anderson discovered...
Antimatter Explained - Ep. 1 - Veritasium — 1 episode
Who talks about Carl Anderson on podcasts?
Carl Anderson came up; the most recent mention was Dec 2025 on Veritasium.
- Antimatter Explained - Ep. 1 on CERN (Dec 2025)
- The Man Who Accidentally Discovered Antimatter on Veritasium (Dec 2025)
What is Carl Anderson mentioned alongside?
Carl Anderson is most often mentioned alongside Eugene Wigner, Werner Heisenberg and Wolfgang Pauli.
Mentioned together: Eugene Wigner, Werner Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli, Oskar Klein, Vladimir Fock, Paul Dirac, Ernst Stueckelberg, Hostinger, Klein-Gordon equation, Dirac equation