In the seventeenth chapter, starts with Donald Glaser, the drunk who was interested in bubbles. Surprisingly, Glaser won a Noble Prize at the age of Thirty-three after he switched his research from bubbles in beer to bubbles in liquid nitrogen (N2). Kean also mentions Ernest Rutherford, who was interested in radioactivity. Rutherford mimic Marie Curie’s experiment on finding radio-active elements but added his own taste to it, thus discovering new elements. This granted him his Nobel Prize in 1908.
In the eighteenth chapter, Kean talks about the people responsible for how long a second