The Nobel Prize in Physics 1936
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Victor Franz Hess
Prize share: 1/2
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive.
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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