Owen Chamberlain
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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]
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Owen Chamberlain | |
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Born | (1920-07-10)July 10, 1920 |
Died | February 28, 2006(2006-02-28) (aged 85) Berkeley, California, U.S. |
Alma mater | Dartmouth College University of California, Berkeley University of Chicago |
Known for | Particle physics |
Awards | Nobel Prize in Physics, 1959 |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | Los Alamos National Laboratory University of California, Berkeley |
Doctoral advisor | Enrico Fermi |
Doctoral students | Paul Grannis, Nathan Isgur, David Delano Clark |
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