Owen Chamberlain
Owen Chamberlain | |
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Chamberlain in 1959 | |
| Born | July 10, 1920 |
| Died | February 28, 2006 (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 |
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.