PHYSICS NOBEL LAUREATE OWEN CHAMBERLAIN

RECORDS ORAL HISTORY

Professor Emeritus Owen Chamberlain of the University of California, Berkeley, describes his work in particle physics, including research on the antiproton for which he and colleague Emilio Segr� were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959. Also of interest is his account of earlier research at Los Alamos on the atom bomb, thesis research under Enrico Fermi, the science and scientists at Ernest Lawrence's Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley, and political activities concerning disarmament, the Berkeley Loyalty Oath, and nuclear issues.

Also of interest is the following article in The Berkeleyan, published by UC Berkeley's Office of Public Affairs: http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2000/11/01/nobelst.html

Cataloguing information:

Chamberlain, Owen (b. 1920)

Physicist Physicist at Los Alamos, Berkeley Professor, 1950-1989, and Nobel Laureate, 2000, iv, 229 pp.

Childhood in San Francisco and Philadelphia; undergraduate education at Dartmouth, graduate work in physics at UC Berkeley; professors at Berkeley: J. Robert Oppenheimer, Emilio Segr�, Ernest Lawrence; work on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos during World War II; physicists at Los Alamos: Enrico Fermi, Clyde Weigand, Edward Teller; postwar graduate work at the University of Chicago; UC Berkeley Radiation Lab, 1948, and colleagues Bob Thornton, Ed Lofgren, Carl Helmholz, Raymond Birge, Luis Alvarez; Nobel Prize in physics, 1959, with Segr� for work on antiproton; involvement with anti-nuclear activism, late research in physics.

Interviewed in 1976 by Graham Hale for the History of Science and Technology Program's Physics Series. Produced by the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 2000.

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