24. Chamberlain's Nobel Prize-winning experiment was in what year?
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Answer
The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded in 1956 to Owen Chamberlain, Emilio Segrè, and Clyde Wiegand for their discovery of the antiproton, a subatomic particle with the same mass as the proton but with a negative electric charge. This discovery confirmed the existence of antimatter, predicted by physicist Paul Dirac in 1928, and opened up new avenues for research in particle physics.
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25. What did Chamberlain focus on after his Nobel Prize win?
26. Which book did Chamberlain contribute to about his Nobel-winning work?
27. Owen Chamberlain was a professor emeritus at which institution?
28. Which device did Chamberlain help develop for his antiproton experiment?
29. Chamberlain co-authored a report about what scientific occurrence?
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