Invention and History of the Bubble Chamber (LBNL Summer Lecture Series)

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OSTI ID:1009233

Glaser, Don ^[1]

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1. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Summer Lecture Series 2006: Don Glaser won the 1960 Nobel Prize for Physics for his 1952 invention of the bubble chamber at Berkeley Lab, a type of particle detector that became the mainstay of high-energy physics research throughout the 1960s and 1970s. He discusses how, inspired by bubbles in a glass of beer, he invented the bubble chamber and detected cosmic-ray muons.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-05CH11231
• OSTI ID: 1009233
• Resource Relation: Conference: Summer Lecture Series, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California (United States), presented on July 12, 2006
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
BUBBLE CHAMBERS
BUBBLES
GLASS
INVENTIONS
MUONS
PHYSICS
COSMIC RAY MUONS
PARTICLE DETECTORS
BUBBLE CHAMBER