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 102,699 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Owen Chamberlain is the 140th most popular physicist (down from 104th in 2019), the 613th most popular biography from United States (down from 340th in 2019) and the 14th 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 140 out of 721. Before him are Paul Langevin, Laura Bassi, Alfred Kastler, Maurice Wilkins, Julius von Mayer, and François Englert. After him are Hans Bethe, Roger Penrose, Ilya Frank, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron, Frits Zernike, and Benjamin Thompson.
1872 - 1946
HPI: 73.59
Rank: 134
1711 - 1778
HPI: 73.55
Rank: 135
1902 - 1984
HPI: 73.54
Rank: 136
1916 - 2004
HPI: 73.50
Rank: 137
1814 - 1878
HPI: 73.48
Rank: 138
1932 - Present
HPI: 73.47
Rank: 139
1920 - 2006
HPI: 73.45
Rank: 140
1906 - 2005
HPI: 73.44
Rank: 141
1931 - Present
HPI: 73.40
Rank: 142
1908 - 1990
HPI: 73.38
Rank: 143
1799 - 1864
HPI: 73.35
Rank: 144
1888 - 1966
HPI: 73.22
Rank: 145
1753 - 1814
HPI: 73.18
Rank: 146
Among people born in 1920, Owen Chamberlain ranks 27. Before him are Frank Herbert, Melina Mercouri, Amália Rodrigues, John Demjanjuk, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and Richard von Weizsäcker. After him are Mickey Rooney, Walter Matthau, Ravi Shankar, François Jacob, Douglass North, and Fritz Walter. Among people deceased in 2006, Owen Chamberlain ranks 20. Before him are Oriana Fallaci, Alfredo Stroessner, Syd Barrett, György Ligeti, Joseph Barbera, and Clifford Geertz. After him are Paul Mauriat, Giacinto Facchetti, Clay Regazzoni, Ibrahim Rugova, Robert Altman, and Choi Kyu-hah.
1920 - 1986
HPI: 74.35
Rank: 21
1920 - 1994
HPI: 74.07
Rank: 22
1920 - 1999
HPI: 73.88
Rank: 23
1920 - 2012
HPI: 73.68
Rank: 24
1920 - 1975
HPI: 73.50
Rank: 25
1920 - 2015
HPI: 73.48
Rank: 26
1920 - 2006
HPI: 73.45
Rank: 27
1920 - 2014
HPI: 73.28
Rank: 28
1920 - 2000
HPI: 73.07
Rank: 29
1920 - 2012
HPI: 72.77
Rank: 30
1920 - 2013
HPI: 72.55
Rank: 31
1920 - 2015
HPI: 72.46
Rank: 32
1920 - 2002
HPI: 72.46
Rank: 33
1929 - 2006
HPI: 76.33
Rank: 14
1912 - 2006
HPI: 75.78
Rank: 15
1946 - 2006
HPI: 75.61
Rank: 16
1923 - 2006
HPI: 75.35
Rank: 17
1911 - 2006
HPI: 74.61
Rank: 18
1926 - 2006
HPI: 74.07
Rank: 19
1920 - 2006
HPI: 73.45
Rank: 20
1925 - 2006
HPI: 73.13
Rank: 21
1942 - 2006
HPI: 73.13
Rank: 22
1939 - 2006
HPI: 73.06
Rank: 23
1944 - 2006
HPI: 72.91
Rank: 24
1925 - 2006
HPI: 72.76
Rank: 25
1919 - 2006
HPI: 72.75
Rank: 26
Among people born in United States, Owen Chamberlain ranks 613 out of 15,968. Before him are Bill Russell (1934), Dolly Parton (1946), Gwen Stefani (1969), Ellen Burstyn (1932), Oliver Stone (1946), and Oliver E. Williamson (1932). After him are Eugene O'Neill (1888), John Huston (1906), Kenny Rogers (1938), Harold Lasswell (1902), Robert McNamara (1916), and Kary Mullis (1944).
1934 - Present
HPI: 73.50
Rank: 607
1946 - Present
HPI: 73.49
Rank: 608
1969 - Present
HPI: 73.46
Rank: 609
1932 - Present
HPI: 73.46
Rank: 610
1946 - Present
HPI: 73.46
Rank: 611
1932 - 2020
HPI: 73.46
Rank: 612
1920 - 2006
HPI: 73.45
Rank: 613
1888 - 1953
HPI: 73.45
Rank: 614
1906 - 1987
HPI: 73.45
Rank: 615
1938 - 2020
HPI: 73.44
Rank: 616
1902 - 1978
HPI: 73.43
Rank: 617
1916 - 2009
HPI: 73.37
Rank: 618
1944 - 2019
HPI: 73.37
Rank: 619
Among physicists born in United States, Owen Chamberlain ranks 14. Before him are Clinton Davisson (1881), Ernest Lawrence (1901), John Bardeen (1908), Kip Thorne (1940), Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839), and Percy Williams Bridgman (1882). After him are Benjamin Thompson (1753), Murray Gell-Mann (1929), Hugh Everett III (1930), Robert H. Goddard (1882), Martin Lewis Perl (1927), and Ben Roy Mottelson (1926).
1881 - 1958
HPI: 74.91
Rank: 8
1901 - 1958
HPI: 74.73
Rank: 9
1908 - 1991
HPI: 74.67
Rank: 10
1940 - Present
HPI: 74.49
Rank: 11
1839 - 1903
HPI: 74.07
Rank: 12
1882 - 1961
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 13
1920 - 2006
HPI: 73.45
Rank: 14
1753 - 1814
HPI: 73.18
Rank: 15
1929 - 2019
HPI: 73.03
Rank: 16
1930 - 1982
HPI: 72.68
Rank: 17
1882 - 1945
HPI: 72.67
Rank: 18
1927 - 2014
HPI: 72.61
Rank: 19
1926 - Present
HPI: 72.54
Rank: 20