Nobel physicist dies

摘要

Donald Glaser, a Nobel prizewinning physicist and inventor of the bubble chamber used to track elementary particles, died on 28 February, aged 86. Glaser won the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics for his realization - in 1952, aged just 25 - that a vat of superheated liquid could detect electrically charged particles better than the vapour-filled cloud chambers' in use at the time.