Antiproton co-discoverer dies (Mar 7)
http://physicsweb.org/article/news/10/3/5
Owen Chamberlain, who co-discovered the antiproton with Emilio Segrè in
1955, has died at the age of 85. Chamberlain and Segrè shared the 1959
Nobel Prize for Physics for the discovery of the particle, which has the
same mass as the proton, but opposite charge. Postulated by Paul Dirac
in 1933, the antiproton is now routinely used in particle-physics
experiments.
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