News Release 42
History of Antimatter
March 12, 2007

In 1898, Arthur Schuster, British physicist, coined the name "antimatter." He theorized matter and antimatter could be converted into an enormous quantity of energy, anticipated the concepts of special relativity and quantum physics, and believed there were entire solar systems of antimatter that were indistinguishable from our solar system. 

During the last 75years, thousands of scientists and engineers have been studying antimatter. CERN, www.cern.ch, and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, www.fnal.gov are multi-billion World-Class High Energy Physics laboratories that have been making, storing, accelerating, and colliding antimatter with matter for over twenty years. For more information, please visit CERN�s five web pages on the History of Antimatter from 1928 to 1995:

During the last 12 years, enormous progress has been made. Antimatter is a mirror image of matter and can be a solid, liquid, gas or plasma. Antimatter is composed of elements that have been incorporated into the Periodic Table of Matter-Antimatter Elements. Each of the antimatter element�s nuclear, chemical and physical characteristics have been defined to such an extent that people know almost as much about antimatter as matter.