Donald Arthur Glaser

Also known as Donald Glaser, Donald A. Glaser

American physicist and neurobiologist (1926–2013)

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Donald Arthur Glaser was born on September 21, 1926, and died on February 28, 2013. He held an Erdős number of 5.

Glaser received one Nobel Prize. His work is recognized in the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Physics collection, and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.

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Donald Arthur Glaser appears in Vinony's Nobel Prize in Physics collection — one of 230 entries. It also appears in Nobel Laureates.

Within Vinony's link graph, Donald Arthur Glaser is referenced by 417 other articles, and connects out to University of California, Berkeley, Martin Lewis Perl and Doctor of Philosophy.

It is catalogued under topics including 1926 births, 2013 deaths and 20th-century American physicists.

Its subject is documented across 76 Wikipedia language editions.

Film & TV

Known for

CERN, or The Factory for the Absolute — Self2010

via TMDB

Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Physics1960
“for the invention of the bubble chamber”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Arthur
Family name: Glaser
Gender: male
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: Cleveland
Place of death: Berkeley
Occupation: university teacher
Employer: University of Michigan
Languages spoken: English language
Award: Guggenheim Fellowship
Doctoral advisor: Carl David Anderson
Student of: Carl David Anderson
Field of work: physics
Image: Donald Glaser.jpg

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Commons category: Donald Glaser
member of: American Philosophical Society
date of birth: 1926-09-21
date of death: 2013-02-28
Erdős number: 5
birth name: Donald Arthur Glaser
nominated for: Nobel Prize in Physics
name in native language: Donald Arthur Glaser
place of burial: Mountain View Cemetery
interested in: physics

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Encyclopedic overview

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.

Personal life

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