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Owen Chamberlain (
July 10,
1920 –
February 28,
2006) was an
American physicist, and Nobel laureate in
physics for his discovery, with collaborator
Emilio Segrè, of
antiprotons, a
sub-atomic antiparticle.
Biography
Born in
San Francisco, California Chamberlain graduated from
Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia in 1937. He studied physics at
Dartmouth College, where he was a member of
Theta Chi Fraternity (Alpha Theta Fraternity today), and at the
University of California, Berkeley. He remained in school until the start of
World War II, and joined the
Manhattan Project in 1942, where he worked with Segrè, both at Berkeley and in
Los Alamos,
New Mexico. He married Beatrice Babette Copper in 1943, with whom he'd four children.
In 1946, after the war, Chamberlain continued with his doctoral studies at the
University of Chicago under legendary physicist
Enrico Fermi. Fermi acted as an important guide and mentor for Chamberlain, encouraging him to leave behind the more prestigious
theoretical physics for
experimental physics, for which Chamberlain had a particular aptitude. Chamberlain officially received his
Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1949.
In 1948, having completed his experimental work, Chamberlain returned to Berkeley as a member of its faculty, where he, Segrè, and other physicists investigated proton-proton scattering. In 1955, a series of proton scattering experiments led to the discovery of the anti-proton, a particle exactly like a proton except negatively charged. Chamberlain's later research work included the
time projection chamber (TPC), and work at the
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC).
Chamberlain was also politically active on issues of peace and social justice, and outspoken against the
Vietnam War. He was a member of Scientists for Sakharov, Orlov, and Shcharansky, three physicists of the former
Soviet Union imprisoned for their political beliefs. In the 1980s, he helped found the
nuclear freeze movement.
Chamberlain was diagnosed with
Parkinson's disease in 1985, and retired from teaching in 1989. He died of complications from the disease on February 28, 2006, in Berkeley at the age of 85.
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