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Owen Chamberlain

Owen Chamberlain (July 10, 1920 – February 28, 2006) was an American physicist who shared with Emilio Segrè the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the antiproton, a sub-atomic antiparticle.[1][2]

Owen Chamberlain

(1920-07-10)July 10, 1920

San Francisco, California, U.S.

February 28, 2006(2006-02-28) (aged 85)

Berkeley, California, U.S.

Dartmouth College
University of California, Berkeley
University of Chicago

Particle physics

Nobel Prize in Physics, 1959

Physics

Los Alamos National Laboratory
University of California, Berkeley

Enrico Fermi

Paul Grannis, Nathan Isgur, David Delano Clark

Chamberlain, Owen; Segre, Emilio; Wiegand, Clyde; Ypsilantis, Thomas, (October 1955). , Radiation Laboratory University of California predecessor to the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), United States Atomic Energy Commission predecessor to the U.S. Department of Energy.

Observation of Antiprotons

Chamberlain, Owen; Segre, Emilio; Wiegand, Clyde, (November 1955). , Radiation Laboratory University of California predecessor to the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), United States Atomic Energy Commission predecessor to the U.S. Department of Energy.

Antiprotons

Chamberlain, Owen; Keller, Donald V.; Mermond, Ronald; Segre, Emilio; Steiner, Herbert M.; Ypsilantis, Tom, (July 1957). , Radiation Laboratory University of California predecessor to the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), United States Atomic Energy Commission predecessor to the U.S. Department of Energy.

Experiments on Antiprotons: Antiproton-Nucleon Cross Sections

Chamberlain, O, (December 1959). , Radiation Laboratory University of California predecessor to the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), United States Atomic Energy Commission predecessor to the U.S. Department of Energy.

The Early Antiproton Work (Nobel Lecture)

Chamberlain, O, (September 1984). , Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL) predecessor to the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), U.S. Department of Energy.

Personal History of Nucleon Polarization Experiments

Media related to Owen Chamberlain at Wikimedia Commons

on Nobelprize.org including his Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1959 The Early Antiproton Work

Owen Chamberlain

Short Bio at Berkeley

at The Bancroft Library

Guide to the Owen Chamberlain Papers

New York Times obituary

National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir