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Owen Chamberlain, visiting lecturer in Physics, and his colleague, Emilio Segre, of the University of California, may receive the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics today, Swedish newspapers reported this weekend. Chamberlain, currently teaching Physics 283, High Energy Physics, is on leave as a professor of Physics at the University of California.
Chamberlain and Segre in 1955 created anti-protons in the powerful Bevatron atom smasher at the University of California's radiation laboratory in Livermore, Cal. These particles closely resemble protons, but carry negative charges.
Other possible recipients of this year's physics prize are James Van Allen of Iowa State University, and Hermann Oberth, of Germany. Van Allen developed the cosmic ray detection apparatus used in Explorer I, the first American artificial satellite, while Oberth's work is in the field of rocketry.
The Swedish Academy of Sciences will announce the Prize Committee's decision some time this afternoon.
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