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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1959

"for their discovery of the antiproton"
Emilio Gino Segrč Owen Chamberlain
Emilio Gino Segrč Owen Chamberlain
half 1/2 of the prize half 1/2 of the prize
USA USA
University of California
Berkeley, CA, USA		 University of California
Berkeley, CA, USA
b. 1905
(in Tivoli, Italy)
d. 1989		 b. 1920
d. 2006
 
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