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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Nov. 3, 1960
Nobel Prizes for Chemistry Physics Go to 2 Americans
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — (UPI)— The Nobel Prizes for physics and chemistry were awarded today to two American atomic scientists in California — Professors Donald A. Glaser and Willard F. Libby.
Glaser, a wavy-haired bachelor who is a talented musician and athlete, won the physics prize for his discovery of the "bubble chamber" — a sort of window to the atom. He is 24 years old and currently is at the University of California at Berkeley.
Libby, 51, a former member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, was the chemistry winner. He devised the "atomic time clock" — a method of dating organic matter through radioactivity that has enabled scientists to tell the age of such things as the dead sea scrolls.
The two men were the first Americans to win Nobel Prizes this year.
Earlier awards $ ^{a} $ - for medicine and literature - went to an Australian, an Englishman and a Frenchman.
Glaser, reached at Berkeley, said he was "delighted and surprised" although he had not been notified officially.
He had been named one of the 10 outstanding young men of 1958 by the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce. He developed his bubble chamber despite skepticism of many other scientists.
The discovery, now in wide use, enabled scientists to mass produce photographs showing what happens during the process of atom smashing.
Libby has been close to the United States atomic program since World War II when he helped determine how to separate explosive uranium 235 from uranium 239.
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Pierce, vice president for the past six years, was chosen to succeed W. I. Boone, Eureka, who had been president for the last six years.
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