The Nobel Prize in Physics 1936

Victor Franz Hess

Prize share: 1/2

Carl David Anderson

Prize share: 1/2

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1936 was divided equally between Victor Franz Hess "for his discovery of cosmic radiation" and Carl David Anderson "for his discovery of the positron."

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