Bubble Chamber
date: label: Date made
content: 1953
name: label: maker
content: Glaser, D.A.
label: maker
content: Rahm, D. C.
notes: label: Description
content: Donald Arthur Glaser (1926-2013) earned a physics PhD from the California Institute of Technology, went to work at the University of Michigan, designed and built a 6-inch bubble chamber for subatomic particles, and won the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics. Dr. Glaser built this replica of that bubble chamber in 1958. He later joined the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley and turned his attention to neurobiology.
label: Description
content: Ref: : Donald A. Glaser and David C. Rahm, “Characteristics of Bubble Chambers,” Physics Review 97 (1955): 474-.
label: Description
content: “Donald Glaser, Nobel Winner in Physics, Dies at 86,” New York Times (March 5, 2013), p. A19.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: location of prior holder
content: United States: Michigan
label: location of prior holder
content: United States: Michigan, Ann Arbor
label: location of prior holder
content: United States: Michigan, Ann Arbor, Harrison M. Randall Laboratory of Physics
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Modern Physics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0356.01
label: accession number
content: 1980.0356
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0356.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Chamber, Bubble
label: Object Name
content: Bubble Chamber, Pentane, Glaser's Six Inch
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: .61 m x .46 m x .26 m; 2 ft x 1 1/2 ft x 7/8 ft
label: Measurements
content: bubble chamber, pentane, glaser's six inch: 73 cm x 18.2 cm x 39.5 cm; 28 3/4 in x 7 3/16 in x 15 9/16 in