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Georges Charpak

1924–2010

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Georges Charpak (1924–2010) was a Polish-born French physicist who revolutionized particle detection by inventing the multiwire proportional chamber, earning the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physics. A survivor of Nazi camps, he later became a passionate advocate for science education and nuclear disarmament, blending rigorous experimentalism with a humanitarian drive.

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La Vie à fil tendu (autobiography, 1993)
Devenez sorciers, devenez savants (with Pierre Léna, 2003)
Mémoires d'un physicien (2005)
Nobel Lecture: 'Electronic Detection of Ionizing Particles' (1992)
Numerous papers on multiwire proportional chambers and drift chambers

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