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 Owen
Chamberlain was born in San Francisco on duly 10, 1920. His father was W.
Edward Chamberlain, a prominent radiologist with an interest in physics. His
mother's maiden name was Genevieve Lucinda Owen.
He obtained his bachelor's degree at Dartmouth College in 1941. He entered
graduate school in physics at the University of California, but his studies were
interrupted by the involvement of the United States in World War II. In early
1942 he joined the Manhattan Project, the U.S. Government organization for the
construction of the atomic bomb. Within the Manhattan Project he worked under
Professor Emilio Segrč, both in Berkeley, California, and in Los Alamos, New
Mexico, investigating nuclear cross sections for intermediate-energy neutrons
and the spontaneous fission of heavy elements. In 1946 he resumed graduate work
at the University of Chicago where, under
the inspired guidance of the late Professor
Enrico Fermi, he worked toward his doctorate. He completed experimental work
on the diffraction of slow neutrons in liquids in 1948 and his doctor's degree
was awarded in 1949 by the University of Chicago.
In 1948 he accepted a teaching position at the University of California in
Berkeley. His research work includes extensive studies of proton-proton
scattering, undertaken with Professor Segrč and Dr. Clyde Wiegand, and an
important series of experiments on polarization effects in proton scattering,
culminating in the triple-scattering experiments with Professor Segrč, Dr.
Wiegand, Dr. Thomas Ypsilantis, and Dr. Robert D. Tripp. In 1955 he participated
with Dr. Wiegand, Professor Segrč, and Dr. Ypsllantis in the discovery of the
antiproton. Since that time he has taken part in a number of experiments
designed to determine the interactions of antiprotons with hydrogen and
deuterium, the production of antineutrons from antiprotons, and the scattering
of -o mesons.
He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the National
Academy of Sciences. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1957 for the
purpose of doing studies in the physics of antinucleons at the University of
Rome. He was appointed Professor of Physics at the University
of California, Berkeley, in 1958, and served as Loeb Lecturer at Harvard
University in 1959.
In 1943 he married Beatrice Babette Copper. He has three daughters and one son.
From Nobel
Lectures, Physics 1942-1962.
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