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

Conference ·
OSTI ID:1009233
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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 Laboratory (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
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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