Nobel Prize in Physics 1959

Emilio Gino Segrè

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Prize share: 1/2

Owen Chamberlain

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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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