Donald Arthur Glaser
1926-
American physicist who invented the bubble chamber, used in detecting products of atomic collisions. Glaser realized that he could heat pressurized liquid helium and it woul...
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Glaser was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 21, 1926. After graduation from high school in Cleveland Heights, Glaser attended the Case Institute of Technology, where he earned a bachelor's degree...
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The work for which Donald Glaser is best known, his bubble chamber invention for tracking the movement of high-energy particles, is said to have begun over a glass of beer. In the early 1950s, while t...
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Donald Arthur Glaser
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