Clyde Wiegand
Clyde Wiegand (May 23, 1915, Long Beach, Washington – July 5, 1996) was an American physicist.[1]
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Wiegand at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Wiegand received his undergraduate degree from Willamette University in 1940. He began his graduate work in physics in 1941 at UC Berkeley.
He was best known for the co-discovery of the antiproton in 1955, along with Owen Chamberlain, Emilio Segrè, and Thomas Ypsilantis. He was also a large contributor to the research of the atomic bomb.
He died at his home in Oakland, California of prostate cancer, aged 81.
References
- Chamberlain, Owen; Steiner, Herbert; Ypsilantis, Thomas (January 1997). "Obituary: Clyde E. Wiegand". Physics Today. 50 (1): 79–80. Bibcode:1997PhT....50a..79C. doi:10.1063/1.2802985.
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