Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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Official Website:
http://www.lbl.gov/

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Melvin Calvin Chemist 8-Apr-1911 8-Jan-1997 Deciphered photosynthesis

Owen Chamberlain Physicist 10-Jul-1920 28-Feb-2006 Co-Discoverer of the antiproton

Steven Chu Physicist 28-Feb-1948 US Secretary of Energy, 2009-13

John Clarke Physicist 10-Feb-1942 Superconducting quantum interference

Donald A. Glaser Physicist 21-Sep-1926 28-Feb-2013 Inventor of the bubble chamber

Saul Perlmutter Astronomer 1959 Accelerating expansion of the universe

Thomas H. Pigford Engineer 21-Apr-1922 27-Feb-2010 Nuclear chemical engineer

Emilio Segrè Physicist 30-Jan-1905 22-Apr-1989 Co-Discoverer of the antiproton

George F. Smoot Physicist 20-Feb-1945 Big bang

Richard E. Taylor Physicist 2-Nov-1929 Verified existence of quarks

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