ANDERSON, CARL Davip, dr., assistant professor of 
physics at the California Institute of Techno- 
logy, Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics, 
Pasadena, Cal., U. S. A., born 1905; “for his 
discovery of the positron.” 
The prize for the yveav 1937 was equally divided be- 
tween: 
DavissoN, CLINTON JoskepH, dr., The Bell Telephone 
Laboratories, New York, born 1881; and 
TrnomsoN, GEORGE PAGET, professor of physics at the 
Imperial College of Science and: Technology, 
London University, London, born 1892; “for 
thewr experimental discovery of the diffraction 
of electrons by crystals.” 
The prize for the year 1938 was awarded to: 
FERMI, ENRICO, professor of theoretical physics at 
the University of Rome, born 1901; “for his 
identification of new vadio-elements produced by 
neutron bombavdment and ris discovery, made in 
connection with this wor: ~ “"» nuclear reactions 
effected by slow nz"