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(1905–91) US physicist
who became a professor at the California Institute of Technology, where he worked mainly in particle physics. In 1932 he discovered the positron in cosmic radiation, and four years later was awarded the Nobel Prize. In 1937 he discovered the mu-meson (muon).
Subjects: Science and Mathematics.
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