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Tools like the Bubble Chamber (Donald Glaser, The Nobel Prize in Physics 1960) were critical to the development of the new view of matter. The idea behind a bubble chamber is that, when you shoot charged particles into a liquid heated above its boiling point, the particles will leave behind a track of bubbles. This makes it easy to track the particles and figure out important things like their charge and mass. Many new particles were discovered with these tools. This posed quite a question for physicists: How do these particles relate to protons, neutrons, and electrons?
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