A bubble chamber is a vessel filled with a superheated transparent liquid used to detect electrically charged particles moving through it. It was invented in 1952 by Donald A. Glaser, for which he was awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics. Supposedly, Glaser was inspired by the bubbles in a glass of beer; however, in a 2006 talk, he refuted this story, although saying that while beer was not the inspiration for the bubble chamber, he did experiments using beer to fill early prototypes.
Fermilab's disused 15-foot (4.57 m) bubble chamber
The first tracks observed in John Wood's 1.5-inch (3.8 cm) liquid hydrogen bubble chamber, in 1954.
Liquid hydrogen (H2(l)) is the liquid state of the element hydrogen. Hydrogen is found naturally in the molecular H2 form.
Liquid hydrogen
The global headquarters of Air Products in Trexlertown, Pennsylvania, a leading global supplier of liquid hydrogen
Liquid hydrogen bubbles forming in two glass flasks at the Bevatron laboratory in 1955
A large hydrogen tank in a vacuum chamber at the Glenn Research Center in Brook Park, Ohio, in 1967