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The photographs taken with
bubble chambers were scanned and tracks measured at
special projection tables, often at many different
university departments. Each chamber produced several
millions of photographs. From the 3-dimensional
reconstruction of the tracks the particle
interactions and decays were studied in detail. With
bubble chambers, physicists learned details about
particle spectroscopy. Large number of new shortlived
particles were found and properties of the strong
interaction was studied. Luis Alvarez received the
1968 Nobel Prize in Physics for his development of
the bubble chamber technique.
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The Nobel Prize in
Physics 1968 - Luis Walter Alvarez
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