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.