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

[Jesse Sheidlower]

Thanks, Fred. Updated.

On Mon, Mar 08, 2021 at 02:05:45AM +0000, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
> antimatter (Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction 1953)
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> "Antimatter" occurs in the 1948 book Cosmic rays and nuclear physics by the physicist Lajos Jánossy:
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> 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.
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> Fred Shapiro
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