12. What nationality was Owen Chamberlain?
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**American.** Owen Chamberlain was an American physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959 with Emilio Segrè for their discovery of the antiproton. He was born in San Francisco, California, in 1920, and attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned his doctorate in physics in 1948.
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