Bubble chamber
Cámara de burbujas
- Date
- 1952 · confidence high
- Place
- Ann Arbor, United States
- Credited to
- Donald A. Glaser
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What it is
Physicist Donald Glaser, at the University of Michigan, invents a detector with superheated liquid that forms a trail of bubbles as charged particles pass through, allowing their tracks to be photographed.
What it led to
- Visual detection of subatomic particles in accelerators
- Discovery of new particles (resonances, strange quarks)
- Nobel Prize in Physics for Glaser (1960)