Donald A. Glaser
American physicist and neurobiologist (1926-2013) · United States · Scientists · Died at 86
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Something wrong?He won a Nobel at 34 for inventing the bubble chamber - a device that made subatomic particles visible by tracking their paths through superheated liquid, turning invisible collisions into photographs physicists could actually see.
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Donald Arthur Glaser was born September 21, 1926. A physicist first, he built the bubble chamber and claimed the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1960 while still young. Later he shifted lanes entirely into biology, spending decades in a second scientific life far from particle tracks. He died February 28, 2013, having worked two careers most people don't get one shot at.
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