Donald A. Glaser Summary

Donald Arthur Glaser 1926- American physicist who invented the bubble chamber, used in detecting products of atomic collisions. Glaser realized that he could heat pressurized liquid helium and it woul... Read more

The work for which Donald Glaser is best known, his bubble chamber invention for tracking the movement of high-energy particles, is said to have begun over a glass of beer. In the early 1950s, while t... Read more