[Ads-l] Antedating of "Antimatter" for Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction

[Shapiro, Fred]

antimatter (Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction 1953)

"Antimatter" occurs in the 1948 book Cosmic rays and nuclear physics by the physicist Lajos Jánossy:

The other type of matter might be called the "anti matter." In collision the two types of matter would annihilate each other and give rise to intense radiation.

Fred Shapiro

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