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Owen Chamberlain

1920 - 2006

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Owen Chamberlain is the 122nd most popular physicist (down from 105th in 2019), the 397th most popular biography from United States (down from 372nd in 2019) and the 17th most popular American Physicist.

Owen Chamberlain was most famous for being the first person to win a Nobel Prize in Physics. He won the award in 1959 for his discovery of the particle that is now known as the pi-meson.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Owen Chamberlain ranks 122 out of 851. Before him are Peter Grünberg, Willis Lamb, Ernst Ruska, Arnold Sommerfeld, François Arago, and Albert Fert. After him are Anders Jonas Ångström, Joseph von Fraunhofer, Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Alfred Kastler, Josiah Willard Gibbs, and William Rowan Hamilton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Owen Chamberlain ranks 16. Before him are Ray Bradbury, George Shultz, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Pran, Paul Celan, and Mario Puzo. After him are Frank Herbert, Nicolaas Bloembergen, Melina Mercouri, Amália Rodrigues, Gianni Rodari, and Richard von Weizsäcker. Among people deceased in 2006, Owen Chamberlain ranks 12. Before him are Naguib Mahfouz, Raymond Davis Jr., Gerald Ford, Stanisław Lem, Milton Friedman, and Alfredo Stroessner. After him are James Brown, Syd Barrett, György Ligeti, Philippe Noiret, Choi Kyu-hah, and Mako.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Owen Chamberlain ranks 397 out of 20,380. Before him are Dianne Wiest (1946), J. D. Vance (1984), Robert Wadlow (1918), Marilyn Manson (1969), Samuel Colt (1814), and Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958). After him are Edward Thorndike (1874), Rocky Marciano (1923), John Ford (1894), Lee Van Cleef (1925), Audie Murphy (1925), and Jamie Foxx (1967).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Owen Chamberlain ranks 17. Before him are Ben Roy Mottelson (1926), Percy Williams Bridgman (1882), Donald A. Glaser (1926), Clinton Davisson (1881), Ernest Lawrence (1901), and Willis Lamb (1913). After him are Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921), Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839), Arthur Compton (1892), James Rainwater (1917), Robert Coleman Richardson (1937), and Clifford Shull (1915).

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