Owen Chamberlain: Nobel Laureate - 1959

Abstract

“By Jove, this is what I want to do.” And so began Owen Chamberlain’s successful quest to verify the existence of the antiproton, a proton having a negative electrical charge. First proposed by Paul Dirac in 1930, the positron remained an elusive construct until Chamberlain and Emilio Segre proved its existence in 1955. Their discovery, published in Physics Review, was followed by the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics.