The android Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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Physicist Carl Anderson was born #OTD in 1905.
Anderson developed an improved cloud chamber that he used to identify the positron – the antiparticle of the electron first theorized by Dirac.
Nowadays we use these particles for positron emission tomography (PET), android brains, and ghost busting.
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