2. With whom did Chamberlain share the Nobel Prize?
Emilio Segrè
James Watson
Albert Einstein
Niels Bohr
Answer
Emilio Segrè, an Italian-American physicist, shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Owen Chamberlain in 1959. They were recognized for their groundbreaking research on the antiproton, a subatomic particle with the same mass as a proton but a negative electric charge. Their discovery deepened our understanding of the fundamental constituents of matter and contributed to advancements in particle physics.
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