Owen Chamberlain
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Childhood in San Francisco and Philadelphia; undergraduate education at Dartmouth, graduate work in physics at UC Berkeley; professors at Berkeley: J. Robert Oppenheimer, Emilio Segrè, Ernest Lawrence; work on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos during World War II; physicists at Los Alamos: Enrico Fermi, Clyde Wiegand, Edward Teller; postwar graduate work at the University of Chicago; UC Berkeley Radiation Lab, and colleagues Bob Thornton, Ed Lofgren, Carl Helmholz, Raymond Birge, Luis Alvarez; Nobel Prize in physics, 1959, with Segrè for work on antiproton; involvement with anti-nuclear activism, late research in physics. |
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Title |
Owen Chamberlain |
Creator |
interviewee. Chamberlain, O. (Owen), interviewer. Hale, Graham, |
Creator |
Bancroft Library. History of Science and Technology Program. Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office. |
Full Collection Name |
California Audiovisual Preservation Project |
Other Identifiers |
cabeuroh_000294 |
Subject (Person) |
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967. Segrè, Emilio. Lawrence, Ernest Orlando, 1901-1958. Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954. Teller, Edward, 1908-2003. Wiegand, Clyde Edward, 1915- |
Subject (Corporate) |
Los Alamos National Laboratory. |
Subject (Topic) |
Physicists United States--Interviews. Atomic bomb New Mexico--Los Alamos. Antiprotons Research. Physics Research--United States. Physiciens États-Unis--Entretiens. Antiprotons Recherche. Physique Recherche--États-Unis. |
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Audio |
Format |
Oral histories. |
Archive |
The Library |
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California AV Project |
Tracks |
cabeuroh_000294_t01_a_access.mp3 Tape 1, Side A cabeuroh_000294_t01_b_access.mp3 Tape 1, Side B cabeuroh_000294_t02_a_access.mp3 Tape 2, Side A cabeuroh_000294_t02_b_access.mp3 Tape 2, Side B cabeuroh_000294_t03_a_access.mp3 Tape 3, Side A cabeuroh_000294_t03_b_access.mp3 Tape 3, Side B cabeuroh_000294_t04_a_access.mp3 Tape 4, Side A cabeuroh_000294_t04_b_access.mp3 Tape 4, Side B cabeuroh_000294_t05_a_access.mp3 Tape 5, Side A cabeuroh_000294_t05_b_access.mp3 Tape 5, Side B cabeuroh_000294_t06_a_access.mp3 Tape 6, Side A cabeuroh_000294_t06_b_access.mp3 Tape 6, Side B cabeuroh_000294_t07_a_access.mp3 Tape 7, Side A cabeuroh_000294_t07_b_access.mp3 Tape 7, Side B cabeuroh_000294_t08_access.mp3 Tape 8 |
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