[Sci-tech-public] Brown Bag Gallery Talk by Debbie Douglas, MIT Museum

[Debbie Meinbresse]

>
>December 15
>
>Object Lessons: Amazing Bubbles
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>Physicists invented a way to see the unseen by filling a pressurized 
>chamber of liquified
>gas in which otherwise undetectable particles would create telltale 
>streaks of bubbles as
>they passed through. MIT professor emeritus Irwin Pless helped design one 
>of the first
>bubble chambers when he was a graduate student at the University of 
>Chicago. Come to
>this monthly brown bag gallery talk and learn about experimental physics 
>and the MIT
>Museum's iMethyl-Iodide Bubble Chamber that Pless built with the Cambridge 
>Bubble
>Chamber Group in 1960.  Moderated by Deborah Douglas, MIT Museum curator 
>of science
>and technology.
>
>* Noon - 1:00pm at the MIT Museum
>* Free admission; refreshments provided
>* General audience


Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-253-4062 
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