Hydrogen Bubble Chamber
date: label: Date made
content: late 1954
name: label: originator
content: Schwemin, Arnold J.
notes: label: Description
content: 4-Inch hydrogen bubble chamber built by Douglas Parmentier, Jr. and Arnold J. “Pete” Schwemin in 1955, under the direction of Luis Alvarez at the University of California, Berkeley.
label: Description
content: Ref: Douglas Parmentier, Jr., and Arnold J. Schwemin, “Liquid Hydrogen Bubble Chambers,” Review of Scientific Instruments 26 (1955): 954-958.
label: Description
content: Luis W. Alvarez, “Recent Developments in Particle Physics,” Science 165 (1969): 1071-1091
label: Description
content: Luis W. Alvarez, “The Hydrogen Bubble Chamber and the Strange Resonances,” (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, 1985).
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: 1989.0171.04
label: accession number
content: 1989.0171
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0171.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Chamber, Bubble, Hydrogen
label: Object Name
content: Bubble Chamber, Liquid-Hydrogen
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 20 cm x 15 cm x 12.5 cm; 7 7/8 in x 5 7/8 in x 4 15/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 45 cm x 20 cm; x 17 11/16 in x 7 7/8 in