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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, Physicist at Los Alamos, Berkeley professor, 1950-1989, and Nobel Laureate; an interview conducted by Graham Hale in 1976
Creator
interviewee., Chamberlain, O. (Owen),
interviewer., Hale, Graham,
Bancroft Library. History of Science and Technology Program.
Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
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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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