Owen Chamberlain
Owen Chamberlain | |
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San Francisco, California, U.S. | |
Died | February 28, 2006 (aged 85) Berkeley, California, U.S. |
Alma mater | Dartmouth College University of California, Berkeley University of Chicago |
Known for | Particle physics |
Awards | Nobel Prize in Physics, 1959 |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | Los Alamos National Laboratory University of California, Berkeley |
Doctoral advisor | Enrico Fermi |
Doctoral students | Paul Grannis, Nathan Isgur, David Delano Clark |
Owen Chamberlain (July 10, 1920 – February 28, 2006) was an American
Biography
Born in
In 1946, after the war, Chamberlain continued with his doctoral studies at the
In 1948, having completed his experimental work, Chamberlain returned to Berkeley as a member of its faculty. There he, Segrè, and other physicists investigated proton-proton scattering. In 1955, a series of proton scattering experiments at Berkeley's
Chamberlain was politically active on issues of peace and social justice, and outspoken against the
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.
Chamberlain plays a central role in Jacob M. Appel's Sherwood Anderson Award-winning short story, "Measures of Sorrow".[6]
Bibliography
- Chamberlain, Owen; Segre, Emilio; Wiegand, Clyde; Ypsilantis, Thomas, (October 1955). Observation of Antiprotons, Radiation Laboratory U.S. Department of Energy.
- Chamberlain, Owen; Segre, Emilio; Wiegand, Clyde, (November 1955). Antiprotons, Radiation Laboratory U.S. Department of Energy.
- Chamberlain, Owen; Keller, Donald V.; Mermond, Ronald; Segre, Emilio; Steiner, Herbert M.; Ypsilantis, Tom, (July 1957). Experiments on Antiprotons: Antiproton-Nucleon Cross Sections, Radiation Laboratory U.S. Department of Energy.
- Chamberlain, O, (December 1959). The Early Antiproton Work (Nobel Lecture), Radiation Laboratory U.S. Department of Energy.
- Chamberlain, O, (September 1984). Personal History of Nucleon Polarization Experiments, U.S. Department of Energy.
References
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- ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1959". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved January 10, 2022.
- ^ Sanders, Robert (March 1, 2006). Owen Chamberlain, Physics Nobelist, UC Berkeley professor, LBNL researcher and co-discoverer of the anti-proton, has died at 85. www.berkeley.edu.
- ^ Yarris, Lynn (March 1, 2006). Berkeley Scientific Great Owen Chamberlain Has Died Archived February 17, 2022, at the Wayback Machine. www.lbl.gov (March 1, 2006)
- ^ "Notable Signers". Humanism and Its Aspirations. American Humanist Association. Archived from the original on November 13, 2016. Retrieved September 15, 2012.
- ^ Appel, JM. (2015) Miracles and Conundrums of the Secondary Planets, Black Lawrence Press.
External links
- Media related to Owen Chamberlain at Wikimedia Commons
- Owen Chamberlain on Nobelprize.org including his Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1959 The Early Antiproton Work
- Short Bio at Berkeley
- Guide to the Owen Chamberlain Papers at The Bancroft Library
- New York Times obituary
- National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir