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Owen Chamberlain

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Owen Chamberlain

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American physicist

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Owen Chamberlain (1920–2006) was an American physicist and university teacher. Born in San Francisco, he died in Berkeley from Parkinson's disease. He was educated at Dartmouth College and the University of Chicago, where Enrico Fermi served as his doctoral advisor. Chamberlain worked for Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley, and participated in the Manhattan Project.

He received the Nobel Prize in Physics and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Chamberlain was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Physical Society. His field of work was physics.

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Group
Origin
United States
Active from
1995-10
emoindie rockmidwest

Discography

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
4
Total plays
420

Hailing from the historic city of Chester, this 27-year old, Nick Drake-inspired singer-songwriter has been performing for years. His gigs are intimate, emotional affairs, largely, often completely, unplugged. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Owen+Chamberlain">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Cytoscape: A Software Environment for Integrated Models of Biomolecular Interaction Networks

    · 2003 · cited 45,719x

  2. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

    · 2016 · cited 11,698x

  3. Development and validation of a geriatric depression screening scale: A preliminary report

    · 1982 · cited 11,176x

  4. The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans

    · 2020 · cited 9,176x

  5. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary

    · 2000 · cited 8,919x

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics1959

    “for their discovery of the antiproton”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Family name
Chamberlain
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
San Francisco
Place of death
Berkeley
Occupation
university teacher
Employer
University of California, Berkeley
Languages spoken
English language
Participant in
Manhattan Project
Academic degree
Doctor of Philosophy
Doctoral advisor
Enrico Fermi
Field of work
physics
Image
Owen Chamberlain.jpg
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Owen Chamberlain
date of birth
1920-07-10
date of death
2006-02-28
medical condition
Parkinson's disease
cause of death
Parkinson's disease
member of
American Physical Society
Erdős number
5
manner of death
natural causes
nominated for
Nobel Prize in Physics
name in native language
Owen Chamberlain
place of burial
Mountain View Cemetery
maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Mathematics
interested in
physics
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Encyclopedic overview

Owen Chamberlain (July 10, 1920 – February 28, 2006) was an American physicist who shared with Emilio Segrè the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the antiproton, a sub-atomic antiparticle.

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