Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Born in Colorado and raised on a fruit ranch in Northern California, Libby studied chemistry at the University of California in Berkeley. He got his doctorate in 1933, went on to teach chemistry at Berkeley. But after Pearl Harbor, he plunged into the supersecret Manhattan Project that built the first atomic bomb...
Donald Glaser, 34, a beamingly boyish professor at the University of California, Berkeley, won the physics prize. Dr. Glaser was born in Cleveland. While in high school (he graduated at 15), he took as much interest in music as in science, and at 16 played the violin in Cleveland's Philharmonic Orchestra. When he entered Case Institute of Technology, physics finally won precedence over music...
...Glaser's bubble chambers were working fine. Physicists, it now appeared, had been waiting for just such a piece of apparatus. Every serious physics laboratory now has at least one bubble chamber. The biggest one, at Berkeley, is 72 inches long, filled with liquid hydrogen, and cost...
...still devoted to music, and may spend part of the $43,627 Nobel Prize on a really good viola. His boss, Chancellor Glenn Seaborg, a Nobel prizewinner himself, says, not wholly in jest, that he realized Glaser was highly eligible for a Nobel Prize and enticed him to Berkeley just in time to get some of the credit for the University of California...