Donald A. Glaser
American physicist and neurobiologist (1926–2013)
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Physicist who invented the bubble chamber and won the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics for it. His detector became essential for tracking subatomic particles during the mid-century particle physics boom.
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Donald Arthur Glaser was an American physicist and biologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1960 for his invention of the bubble chamber.
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