Donald A. Glaser
American physicist and neurobiologist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Donald Arthur Glaser (September 21, 1926 ā February 28, 2013) was an American physicist, neurobiologist, and the winner of the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of the bubble chamber used in subatomic particle physics.[1][2][3]
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Born | Donald Arthur Glaser (1926-09-21)September 21, 1926 Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
Died | February 28, 2013(2013-02-28) (aged 86) Berkeley, California, U.S. |
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Fields | Physics, Molecular biology |
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Thesis | The momentum distribution of charged cosmic ray particles near sea level (1949) |
Doctoral advisor | Carl David Anderson |
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