Nobel Prize in Physics 1959
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Emilio Gino Segrè
Prize share: 1/2
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Owen Chamberlain
Prize share: 1/2
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1959 was awarded jointly to Emilio Gino Segrè and Owen Chamberlain "for their discovery of the antiproton"
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