What is Donald A. Glaser?
{{nobelprize|Physics}} [[File:Donald Glaser.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Glaser in 1960]] '''Donald Arthur Glaser''' (September 21, 1926 &ndash; February 28, 2013) was an [[Americans|American]] [[physicist]] and [[neurobiologist]] of Jewish descent. He won the 1960 [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] for his invention of the [[bubble chamber]] used in [[subatomic particle]] physics. Glaser was born on September 21, 1926 in [[Cleveland, Ohio]]. He studied at [[Case Western University]] and at the [[California Institute of Technology]]. Glaser was married to Ruth Bonnie Thompson from 1960 until they divorced in c. 1970. Then he was married to Lynn Bercovitz from 1975 until his death in 2013. Glaser died on February 28, 2013 in his home in [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]], [[California]] from natural causes, aged 86.<ref>{{cite web |last=Sanders |first=Robert |url=http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/03/01/physics-nobelist-and-biotech-pioneer-donald-glaser-dies-at-86/ |title=Physics Nobelist and biotech pioneer Donald Glaser dies at 86 |publisher=Newscenter.berkeley.edu |date=March 1, 2013 |accessdate=2013-03-02 |archive-date=2015-03-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150321181116/http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/03/01/physics-nobelist-and-biotech-pioneer-donald-glaser-dies-at-86/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{commonscat-inline|Donald Glaser}} {{wikiquote}} *[http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/glaser.html Biography and Bibliographic Resources], from the [[Office of Scientific and Technical Information]], [[United States Department of Energy]] *[http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1960/glaser.html Biography of Glaser, Donald A.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130321072447/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1960/glaser.html |date=2013-03-21 }} {{Nobel Prize in Physics}} {{US-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Glaser, Donald A.}} [[Category:1926 births]] [[Category:2013 deaths]] [[Category:American Nobel Prize winners]] [[C