Dr. Carl Anderson (left) and Seth Neddermeyer with
Dr. Carl Anderson (left) and Seth Neddermeyer with their cloud chamber machine. Sept. 29, 1933 At California Institute of Technology. With it gamma rays were split into electrons and positrons. Anderson won the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics. Neddermeyer lead the Manhattan Project implosion team for the Trinity Test (July 17, 1945) and Fat Boy Bomb dropped on Nagasaki (Aug. 9, 1945). (CSU_2015_11_1196)
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