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Luis Alvarez
Hydrogen Bubble Chamber
- Physicist Luis Alvarez, one of the inventors of
the hydrogen bubble chamber, received a patent in 1949 for an early
version of radar.
- He won the Nobel Prize in 1968 for his contributions
to the study of particle physics and the technique of using hydrogen
bubble chamber and data analysis.
- This research led to the discovery of
over 70 elementary particles and resulted in a major revision of
nuclear theories.
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