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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1936

"for his discovery of cosmic radiation"
"for his discovery of the positron"
Victor Franz Hess Carl David Anderson
Victor Franz Hess Carl David Anderson
half 1/2 of the prize half 1/2 of the prize
Austria USA
Innsbruck University
Innsbruck, Austria		 California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Pasadena, CA, USA
b. 1883
d. 1964		 b. 1905
d. 1991
 
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