He worked as a staff physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory before joining the Berkeley faculty in 1961.
[1][2][3] He works in observational high-energy neutrino astrophysics.
[4] Among his students were Carl Haber, a MacArthur Fellow known for his work in audio preservation, and Susan Cooper, professor at the University of Oxford.
[5] Chinowsky received two Guggenheim Fellowships, one in 1966 for experiments in elementary particle interactions,[6] and a second in 1978.
[7] In 1987, he was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society for "contributions to the discovery of numerous elementary particles and the determination of their properties.