Discovery of the antiproton
Descubrimiento del antiprotón
- Date
- 1955 · confidence high
- Place
- Berkeley, California, United States
- Credited to
- Emilio Segrè and Owen Chamberlain
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
Using the Berkeley Bevatron accelerator, Segrè and Chamberlain experimentally confirmed the existence of the antiproton, the antiparticle of the proton predicted by Dirac in 1933.
What it led to
- Experimental confirmation of the existence of antimatter
- 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics