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Name: Owen Chamberlain
Birth Date: 1920
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: physicist

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Biography of Owen Chamberlain
757 words, approx. 3 pages
Owen Chamberlain won the 1959 Nobel Prize in physics for confirming the existence of the antiproton. He shared this honor with his colleague of many years, Emilio Segrè. The antiproton was hypothesized as being a mirror image of the proton, a...


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Chamberlain, Owen
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(born July 10, 1920, San Francisco, California, U.S.—died February 28, 2006, Berkeley, California) American physicist, who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1959 with Emilio Segrè for their discovery of the antiproton. This previously...
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Owen Chamberlain Information
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Owen Chamberlain (July 10, 1920 – February 28, 2006) was a prominent American physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1959 with his collaborator Emilio Segrè for their discovery of the antiproton, a fundamental particle. Born in San...


News and Journals
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The Boston Globe
Owen Chamberlain, 85, Nobel Laureate In Physics
03/03/2006: 569 words, approx. 2 pages
LOS ANGELES Owen Chamberlain, a California physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project that developed the first atomic bomb and was later awarded the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the antiproton, died Tuesday. He was 85. Dr. Chamberlain, a politically active scientist...
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The Washington Post
Nobel Laureate, Berkeley Physicist Owen Chamberlain
03/04/2006: 605 words, approx. 2 pages
Owen Chamberlain, 85, a winner of the Nobel Prize in physics and a leader in the effort to find antimatter, one of the most beguiling and provocative concepts of modern science, died Feb. 28 at his home in Berkeley, Calif. He had Parkinson's disease....
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AP News
Roll call of notable deaths in 2006
12/15/2006: 3,666 words, approx. 12 pages
With "The Feminine Mystique," Betty Friedan gave rise to the modern women's movement, striking a chord that continues to ring four decades later.Friedan and Coretta Scott King gained fame as crusaders for human rights. Shelley Winters and Wendy Wasserstein made their mark in the performing...
 


 

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