[Robotgroup] Except for Bubble Chamber. Re: link between beer and poor scientific results..

[Bruce Waters]

Vern,

Here is at least one positive influence beer drinking has had on a
scientific career:

Per
http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/glaser.html

The 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Donald Glaser for his
invention of the bubble chamber. "Glaser first conceived of the bubble
chamber in 1952, at the age of 25, while a faculty member at the University
of Michigan. According to scientific lore, Glaser was enjoying a cold beer
when he observed the stream of bubbles in his brew. It was a moment of
saloon science that inspired a tool second only in importance to the
cyclotron for atomic physicists.

The first bubble chamber, no bigger than its inventor's thumb, contained a
clear, super-heated liquid in the path of charged atomic particles
accelerated by an atom smasher. As the particles pushed through the liquid,
they created a trail of tiny bubbles that could be photographed through the
window of the chamber. Analyzing the bubbles provides physicists with
insight about the particles and related forces. ..

Bruce Waters