"The ideal student would be one who was not working for grades but was working because he was interested in the work and not trying to compete with fellow students."
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Academics from the United StatesNobel laureates in PhysicsNobel laureates from the United StatesPhysicists from the United StatesScientists from New York City
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Interview with Carl Anderson (1979). Oral History Project, California Institute of Technology Archives, Pasadena, California.
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Carl David Anderson
Carl David Anderson (September 3, 1905 – January 11, 1991) was an American physicist. He is best known for his discovery of the positron in 1932, an achievement for which he received the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics, and of the muon in 1936.
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