Owen Chamberlain
Owen Chamberlain | |
|---|---|
 Chamberlain in 1959 | |
| Born | July 10, 1920 |
| Died | February 28, 2006 (aged 85) Berkeley, California, U.S. |
| Education | Dartmouth College University of California, Berkeley University of Chicago |
| Known for | Particle physics |
| Spouse(s) | Beatrice Babette Cooper (m. 1943, d. 1988) June Steingart Greenfield (d. 1991) Senta Pugh-Chamberlain (née Gaiser) |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Physics, 1959 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Workplaces | Los Alamos National Laboratory University of California, Berkeley |
| 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.