6 Youngest Nobel Prize Winners

5. Carl David Anderson

Age: 31

Date of Birth: 3 September, 1905

Award: Nobel Prize in Physics, 1936

Carl David Anderson won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the positron, the first established ‘antiparticle’. He was born in New York, of Swedish parents, and as a child had his sights set on a career in athletics, specifically as a high jumper. Fortunately for the world of particle physics, he changed his mind and went on to study physics and engineering at the California Institute of Technology. Following his early Nobel Prize achievement, Anderson went on to win many other awards, later becoming a member of the National Academy of Science. Anderson died on January 11^th, 1991.