Renowned physicist Owen Chamberlain, who shared a Nobel Prize for introducing the world to antimatter, died Tuesday in Berkeley, Calif., at the age of 85. Chamberlain died at his home from complications caused by Parkinson's disease, the Los Angeles Times reported.

By Douglas Fischer, STAFF WRITER Owen Chamberlain, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics for his co- discovery of the antiproton and a professor emeritus at the University of California-Berkeley, died Tuesday in his Berkeley home at age 85.

BERKELEY, Calif. - Owen Chamberlain, who shared the 1959 Nobel Prize in physics as co-discoverer of the antiproton in atomic physics, has died at age 85, officials at the University of California, Berkeley, said Wednesday.