1. Owen Chamberlain was an American physicist who shared with Emilio Segre the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the antiproton, a sub-atomic antiparticle.
11 Facts About Owen Chamberlain
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Owen Chamberlain studied physics at Dartmouth College, where he was a member of Alpha Theta chapter of Theta Chi fraternity, and at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Owen Chamberlain remained in school until the start of World War II, and joined the Manhattan Project in 1942, where he worked with Segre, both at Berkeley and in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
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In 1946, after the war, Owen Chamberlain continued with his doctoral studies at the University of Chicago under physicist Enrico Fermi.
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Fermi acted as an important guide and mentor for Owen Chamberlain, encouraging him to leave behind theoretical physics for experimental physics, for which Owen Chamberlain had a particular aptitude.
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Owen Chamberlain received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1949.
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In 1948, having completed his experimental work, Owen Chamberlain returned to Berkeley as a member of its faculty.
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Owen Chamberlain was politically active on issues of peace and social justice, and outspoken against the Vietnam War.
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Owen Chamberlain was a member of Scientists for Sakharov, Orlov, and Shcharansky, three physicists of the former Soviet Union imprisoned for their political beliefs.
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Owen Chamberlain was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1985, and retired from teaching in 1989.
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Owen Chamberlain died of complications from the disease on February 28,2006, in Berkeley at the age of 85.