History of Antimatter

History of Antimatter

1898
A.Schuster surmises the existence of antiatoms, with properties exactly opposite to those of ordinary atoms; antiatoms should attract each other gravitationally, but might be repelled by ordinary matter

1928
P.A.M.Dirac proposes the existence of positively charged electrons, nowadays known as anti-electron or positron

1932
C.D.Anderson discoveres the 'positive electron' while measuring cosmic rays in a Wilson chamber experiment

1955
O.Chamberlain, E.Segrè, C.Wiegand, and T.Ypsilantis discover the antiproton

1995
Antiproton and positron combined to antihydrogen for the first time