Chamberlain O Segre E Wiegand C (1 results)
More imagesPublished by Lancaster, PA & New York, NY: American Physical Society, 1955
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, journal issue in original printed wrappers, of the discovery of the antiproton. Segrè and Chamberlain, colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley, shared the 1959 Nobel Prize in physics "for their discovery of the antiproton" (first reported in the present p…aper), a particle with the same mass and spin as the proton but with opposite charge and magnetic moment. Such antiparticles had been predicted in 1928 by Dirac's relativistic theory of the electron, and the first such particle, the positron, had been discovered by C. D. Anderson in 1932. "Chamberlain was a participant in Trinity, the first atomic bomb test, held in Alamagordo, NM, in 1945. Afterwards, he gathered bits of glass, created from desert sand by the heat of the blast, and mailed samples to several noted politicians in Washington, D.C., with the warning message: Look what you can do to mankind! After the war, Chamberlain resumed his graduate work at the University of Chicago. His mentor there was the great Italian physicist and Nobel Laureate Enrico Fermi, who'd also been Segrè's mentor. He was awarded his Ph.D. in physics in 1948 and immediately returned to UC Berkeley, where he accepted a teaching position, (he would become a full professor in 1958) and was reunited with Segrè at the Rad Lab. Chamberlain, Segrè and Wiegand made use of the Rad Lab's powerful particle accelerators called atom smashers at the time to undertake an extensive series of experiments on the interactions between protons and the polarization of smashed atomic nuclei. In 1954, Lawrence commissioned the Bevatron accelerator, a machine that was built to go after the antiproton whose existence had been predicted in 1928. Two teams were assembled to find the elusive particle. One team was led by Segrè and Chamberlain and included Wiegand and Thomas Ypsilantis. The antiproton experiments of Segrè and Chamberlain and their collaborators began the first week of August in 1955. On September 21, the future Nobel laureates and their team got their first evidence of the antiproton based on measurements of particle momentum and velocity" (Berkeley Lab View, March 17, 2006). Large 8vo, pp. 763-979. Original printed wrappers (minor wear to foot of spine).
