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Name
  
Clyde Wiegand

Role
  
Physicist

Died
  
July 5, 1996


Clyde Wiegand (May 23, 1915, Long Beach, Washington – July 5, 1996) was an American physicist.

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.

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