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Donald Arthur Glaser
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Donald Arthur Glaser

Inventor · born September 21, 1926 · died 2013

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Donald Arthur Glaser was an American physicist and biologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1960 for his invention of the bubble chamber.

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  1. ~34Received the Nobel Prize in Physics1960

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