| Owen Chamberlain  Born: 10-Jul-1920
Birthplace: San Francisco, CA
Died: 28-Feb-2006
Location of death: Berkeley, CA
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Co-Discoverer of the antiproton Father: W. Edward Chamberlain (radiologist)
Mother: Genevieve Lucinda Owen
Wife: Beatrice Babette Copper (m. 1943, d. 1988, three daughters, one son)
Daughter: Karen Chamberlain
Daughter: Lynne Guenther
Daughter: Pia Chamberlain
Son: Darol Chamberlain
Wife: June Steingart Greenfield (d. 1991)
Wife: Senta Pugh Gaiser (m. 1998)
University: AB, Dartmouth College (1941)
University: University of California at Berkeley (interrupted by WWII)
University: PhD, University of Chicago (1949)
Professor: University of California at Berkeley (1948-89)
Manhattan Project 1942-46
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Physical Society
National Academy of Sciences
Nobel Prize for Physics 1959 (with Emilio Segrč)
Guggenheim Fellowship 1957
Draft Deferment: World War II by Presidential directive (3 times)
Risk Factors: Parkinson's
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