8. Where was Owen Chamberlain born?
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Owen Chamberlain was born in San Francisco, California, on July 10, 1920. He was an American physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959 with Emilio Segrè for their discovery of the antiproton. Chamberlain conducted his research at the University of California, Berkeley, where he built a large particle accelerator that allowed him to study the interactions of high-energy particles.
Unraveling the Universe: The Extraordinary Journey of Owen Chamberlain
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