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Owen Chamberlain was born in San Francisco on July 10, 1920. His father was W. Edward Chamberlain, a prominent radiologist with an interest in physics. His mother’s maiden name was Genevieve Lucinda Owen. He obtained his bachelor’s degree at Dartmouth College in 1941.

Owen Chamberlain (1920-2006) was an American physicist and winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize. He joined the Manhattan Project in 1942 after his graduate studies were interrupted by World War II. Chamberlain worked under Professor Emilio Segre at the University of California, Berkeley and at Los Alamos.

Owen Chamberlain The Nobel Prize in Physics 1959 Born: 10 July 1920, San Francisco, CA, USA Died: 28 February 2006, Berkeley, CA, USA Affiliation at the time of the award: University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Prize motivation: “for their discovery of the antiproton” Prize share: 1/2 Work

Owen Chamberlain was born in San Francisco on July 10, 1920. His father was W. Edward Chamberlain, a prominent radiologist with an interest in physics. His mother’s maiden name was Genevieve Lucinda Owen. He obtained his bachelor’s degree at Dartmouth College in 1941.

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...

Owen Chamberlain made a scientific breakthrough of cosmic proportions. He proved the existence of the antiproton, or antimatter. His achievement, which earned him (and his University of California, Berkeley mentor Emilio Segré) the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics, became a cornerstone of the Standard Model, the physics theory that explains what ...