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Donald A. Glaser

1926 - 2013

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Donald Arthur Glaser (September 21, 1926 – February 28, 2013) was an American physicist and biologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1960 for his invention of the bubble chamber. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Donald A. Glaser is the 101st most popular physicist (up from 141st in 2019), the 318th most popular biography from United States (up from 507th in 2019) and the 13th most popular American Physicist.

Donald A. Glaser is most famous for inventing the bubble chamber. This device is used to detect subatomic particles.

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Among physicists, Donald A. Glaser ranks 101 out of 851. Before him are Ben Roy Mottelson, J. Hans D. Jensen, Percy Williams Bridgman, Jean Baptiste Perrin, William Henry Bragg, and Eugene Wigner. After him are Aage Bohr, Thomas Young, Peter Debye, Mikhail Lomonosov, Georges Lemaître, and Hannes Alfvén.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Donald A. Glaser ranks 14. Before him are Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Leslie Nielsen, Thích Nhất Hạnh, Dario Fo, Ben Roy Mottelson, and Vasily Arkhipov. After him are Klaus Kinski, René Goscinny, Sathya Sai Baba, Svetlana Alliluyeva, Nuon Chea, and Prince Claus of the Netherlands. Among people deceased in 2013, Donald A. Glaser ranks 7. Before him are Nelson Mandela, Margaret Thatcher, Mikhail Kalashnikov, Robert Edwards, Hugo Chávez, and Jorge Rafael Videla. After him are Pran, Doris Lessing, Heinrich Rohrer, Võ Nguyên Giáp, Frederick Sanger, and Robert Coleman Richardson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Donald A. Glaser ranks 318 out of 20,380. Before him are Billy the Kid (1859), Steve Bannon (1953), John R. Bolton (1948), Jay-Z (1969), Walt Whitman (1819), and Paul Auster (1947). After him are Paulette Goddard (1910), John Young (1930), Scatman John (1942), Brian Wilson (1942), Sammy Davis Jr. (1925), and Michael Mann (1943).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Donald A. Glaser ranks 13. Before him are Luis Walter Alvarez (1911), Robert Andrews Millikan (1868), Carl David Anderson (1905), Barry Barish (1936), Ben Roy Mottelson (1926), and Percy Williams Bridgman (1882). After him are Clinton Davisson (1881), Ernest Lawrence (1901), Willis Lamb (1913), Owen Chamberlain (1920), Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921), and Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839).

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