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Also Known As Donald Arthur Glaser
Born September 21, 1926 • Cleveland • Ohio
Died February 28, 2013 (aged 86) • Berkeley • California
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1960)
Inventions bubble chamber
Subjects Of Study subatomic particle
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi
Italian-American physicist
Wolfgang Pauli, 1945.
Wolfgang Pauli
American physicist
Chen Ning Yang
Chen Ning Yang
American physicist
Murray Gell-Mann
Murray Gell-Mann
American physicist
Luis Alvarez
Luis Alvarez
American physicist
Arthur Ashkin
American physicist
CCD
Willard Boyle
Canadian-American physicist
Richter, Burton; Perl, Martin Lewis; Goldhaber, Gerson
Martin Lewis Perl
American physicist
Shockley
William B. Shockley
American physicist
Tsung-Dao Lee
Tsung-Dao Lee
Chinese-American physicist
Bardeen.
John Bardeen
American physicist
Charles Hard Townes
Charles Hard Townes
American physicist
CCD
George E. Smith
American physicist
Brattain
Walter H. Brattain
American physicist
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian physicist
J.J. Thomson
J.J. Thomson
British physicist
Donna Strickland
Canadian physicist
Gérard Mourou
French physicist
Yukawa Hideki at Columbia University, 1949.
Yukawa Hideki
Japanese physicist
Martinus J.G. Veltman
Dutch physicist

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