| LC control no. | n 92804354 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Glaser, D. A. |
| Variant(s) | Glaser, Donald Arthur |
| Birth date | 19260921 |
| Death date | 20130228 |
| Place of birth | Cleveland, Ohio |
| Place of death | Berkeley, Calif. |
| Field of activity | Bubble chambers Microbiology Molecular biology Cancer--Treatment Neurobiology Vision |
| Affiliation | University of California, Berkeley University of Michigan |
| Profession or occupation | Physicist Microbiologist Molecular biologist Neurobiologist College teacher Nobel Prize winner |
| Found in | Dahlem Workshop on Exploring Brain Functions: Models in Neuroscience (1991 : Berlin, Germany). Exploring brain functions, c1992: CIP t.p. (D.A. Glaser) galley (Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley, CA, USA) New York times (online), viewed Mar. 5, 2013 (in obituary published Mar. 4: Donald A. Glaser; b. Donald Arthur Glaser, Sept. 21, 1926, Cleveland; d. Thursday [Feb. 28, 2013], Berkeley, Calif., aged 86; won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1960 for inventing, at 25, an ingenious device called the bubble chamber to trace the paths of subatomic particles; later turned to microbiology and developing cancer therapies; switched fields again in the 1980s, this time to study the neurobiology of vision) |
| Associated language | eng |
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