Chamberlain, Owen (1920–2006)
American physicist who shared the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics with Lawrence
Berkeley Laboratory and University of California at Berkeley colleague Emilio
Segrè in recognition of their discovery of the antiproton in 1955
(see antiparticle). The discovery of
the antiproton, the mirror image counterpart to the proton
in ordinary matter, was made possible through the combination of the Bevatron
accelerator, the world’s most powerful at that time, and a unique detector,
designed by Chamberlain and his colleague, Clyde Wiegand, that was set off
only by particles moving at the speed predicted for antiprotons.
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