Oppenheimer’s insight prompted Dirac to propose a new particle. In classic Dirac style, he decided to call it the “anti-electron.”
The race was on to observe this particle and give it a name that wasn’t completely terrible!
Ref: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspa.1931.0130
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