The positron was discovered by which of the following physicist

a. Paul A. M. Dirac who discovered it in Great Britain.
b. Hideki Yukawa who discovered it in Japan.
c. The Austrian physicist V. F. Hess who discovered it in balloon flights.
d. Richard Feynman who discovered it after proposing his diagrams.
e. Carl Anderson who discovered it while at Caltech.


e. Anderson first observed the positron.

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