positron
Antiparticle of the electron; an elementary particle having the same mass as an electron but exhibiting a positive charge. The positron was discovered in 1932 by US physicist Carl Anderson at the California Institute of Technology, USA, its existence having been predicted by the British physicist Paul Dirac in 1928.
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