Anderson
an·der·son
noun
United States author whose works were frequently autobiographical (1876-1941)
United States physicist who studied the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems (1923-)
United States contralto noted for her performance of spirituals (1902-1993)
United States physicist who discovered antimatter in the form of an antielectron that is called the positron (1905-1991)
Origin
From Middle English Ander (“Andrew”) + -son, after Saint Andrew, patron saint of Scotland. In the United States, sometimes an anglicization of Danish and Norwegian Andersen or Swedish Andersson.
Phrases
- Anderson County
- Anderson localization
- Anderson squat
- Anderson-Bogoliubov mode
- Anderson-Darling test
- Anderson-Higgs mechanism
- Josephson-Anderson relation
- react Anderson
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