1920 - 2006
Owen Chamberlain (July 10, 1920 – February 28, 2006) was an American physicist who shared with Emilio Segrè the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the antiproton, a sub-atomic antiparticle. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Owen Chamberlain has received more than 151,347 page views. His biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Owen Chamberlain is the 123rd most popular physicist (up from 140th in 2019), the 499th most popular biography from United States (up from 613th in 2019) and the 11th most popular American Physicist.
Owen Chamberlain was most famous for being the first person to win a Nobel Prize in Physics. He won the award in 1959 for his discovery of the particle that is now known as the pi-meson.
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Among physicists, Owen Chamberlain ranks 123 out of 717. Before him are Auguste Piccard, Heinrich Rohrer, François Arago, Walter Houser Brattain, C. F. Powell, and Pavel Cherenkov. After him are Leo Szilard, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Arno Allan Penzias, Percy Williams Bridgman, and Charles Glover Barkla.
1884 - 1962
HPI: 66.79
Rank: 117
1933 - 2013
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 118
1786 - 1853
HPI: 66.65
Rank: 119
1902 - 1987
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 120
1903 - 1969
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 121
1904 - 1990
HPI: 66.52
Rank: 122
1920 - 2006
HPI: 66.47
Rank: 123
1898 - 1964
HPI: 66.33
Rank: 124
1898 - 1988
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 125
1921 - 2011
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 126
1933 - 2024
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 127
1882 - 1961
HPI: 66.15
Rank: 128
1877 - 1944
HPI: 66.03
Rank: 129
Among people born in 1920, Owen Chamberlain ranks 24. Before him are Zecharia Sitchin, Amália Rodrigues, Juan Antonio Samaranch, Traudl Junge, Montgomery Clift, and Boris Vian. After him are Richard von Weizsäcker, Walter Matthau, Helmut Newton, John Demjanjuk, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and Ravi Shankar. Among people deceased in 2006, Owen Chamberlain ranks 18. Before him are Heinrich Harrer, Alfredo Stroessner, Philippe Noiret, Oriana Fallaci, Syd Barrett, and György Ligeti. After him are Joseph Barbera, Ibrahim Rugova, Clifford Geertz, Anna Politkovskaya, Paul Mauriat, and Clay Regazzoni.
1920 - 2010
HPI: 67.59
Rank: 18
1920 - 1999
HPI: 67.58
Rank: 19
1920 - 2010
HPI: 67.53
Rank: 20
1920 - 2002
HPI: 67.44
Rank: 21
1920 - 1966
HPI: 67.37
Rank: 22
1920 - 1959
HPI: 66.78
Rank: 23
1920 - 2006
HPI: 66.47
Rank: 24
1920 - 2015
HPI: 66.12
Rank: 25
1920 - 2000
HPI: 65.67
Rank: 26
1920 - 2004
HPI: 65.55
Rank: 27
1920 - 2012
HPI: 65.37
Rank: 28
1920 - 1975
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 29
1920 - 2012
HPI: 64.85
Rank: 30
1912 - 2006
HPI: 70.20
Rank: 12
1912 - 2006
HPI: 69.03
Rank: 13
1930 - 2006
HPI: 68.61
Rank: 14
1929 - 2006
HPI: 68.08
Rank: 15
1946 - 2006
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 16
1923 - 2006
HPI: 67.17
Rank: 17
1920 - 2006
HPI: 66.47
Rank: 18
1911 - 2006
HPI: 65.88
Rank: 19
1944 - 2006
HPI: 65.67
Rank: 20
1926 - 2006
HPI: 65.53
Rank: 21
1958 - 2006
HPI: 65.52
Rank: 22
1925 - 2006
HPI: 65.36
Rank: 23
1939 - 2006
HPI: 65.24
Rank: 24
Among people born in United States, Owen Chamberlain ranks 499 out of 18,182. Before him are Ronald Wayne (1934), Lou Reed (1942), Kurt Vonnegut (1922), John Huston (1906), Liza Minnelli (1946), and Richard Widmark (1914). After him are Jeffrey Epstein (1953), Harriet Tubman (1820), Paul Simon (1941), Elinor Ostrom (1933), Melvin Calvin (1911), and Ruth Benedict (1887).
1934 - Present
HPI: 66.56
Rank: 493
1942 - 2013
HPI: 66.54
Rank: 494
1922 - 2007
HPI: 66.52
Rank: 495
1906 - 1987
HPI: 66.51
Rank: 496
1946 - Present
HPI: 66.50
Rank: 497
1914 - 2008
HPI: 66.49
Rank: 498
1920 - 2006
HPI: 66.47
Rank: 499
1953 - 2019
HPI: 66.45
Rank: 500
1820 - 1913
HPI: 66.45
Rank: 501
1941 - Present
HPI: 66.44
Rank: 502
1933 - 2012
HPI: 66.43
Rank: 503
1911 - 1997
HPI: 66.42
Rank: 504
1887 - 1948
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 505
Among physicists born in United States, Owen Chamberlain ranks 11. Before him are Barry Barish (1936), Clinton Davisson (1881), John Bardeen (1908), Arthur Compton (1892), Joseph Henry (1797), and Kip Thorne (1940). After him are Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921), Percy Williams Bridgman (1882), Ernest Lawrence (1901), Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839), Robert Coleman Richardson (1937), and Ben Roy Mottelson (1926).
1936 - Present
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 5
1881 - 1958
HPI: 68.85
Rank: 6
1908 - 1991
HPI: 68.77
Rank: 7
1892 - 1962
HPI: 68.51
Rank: 8
1797 - 1878
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 9
1940 - Present
HPI: 67.63
Rank: 10
1920 - 2006
HPI: 66.47
Rank: 11
1921 - 2011
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 12
1882 - 1961
HPI: 66.15
Rank: 13
1901 - 1958
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 14
1839 - 1903
HPI: 65.84
Rank: 15
1937 - 2013
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 16
1926 - 2022
HPI: 64.97
Rank: 17