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Georges Charpak, Particle Detectors, and Multiwire ChambersResources with Additional Information · Patents ![]() Courtesy of CERN Nobel laureate Georges Charpak [was] a pioneer in the art and science of particle detection … . [He] developed a host of particle detectors used throughout experimental particle physics. In 1968, he invented and developed the first multiwire proportional chamber, for which he won the [Physics] Nobel Prize in 1992 … . The multiwire chamber differed from earlier detectors in the speed with which it could record particle tracks from a collision—millions per second, rather than one or two per second for bubble chambers. The speed of the multiwire chamber and its successor technologies, along with their extraordinary precision, led to a revolution in particle physics … . The technology that Charpak pioneered also finds applications in medicine and industry. Fermilab physicist and fellow Nobelist Leon Lederman served as Fermilab director during the time Charpak participated in experiments at Fermilab. Charpak developed the wire chamber design that CDF used for its central tracking chamber. Edited excerpts from Georges Charpak, Detector Pioneer …, Fermilab Today, September 30, 2010
Resources with Additional InformationAdditional information about Georges Charpak, particle detectors, and multiwire chambers is available in electronic documents and on the Web. Documents:The K0 anti K0 System, DOE Technical Report, July 1967 Evolution of Some Particle Detectors Based On the Discharge in Gases, DOE Technical Report, November 1969 High Accuracy, Two-Dimensional Read-Out in Multiwire Proportional Chambers, DOE Technical Report, February 1973 High-Accuracy Measurements of the Centre of Gravity of Avalanches in Proportional Chambers, DOE Technical Report, September 1973 Inclusive Hadronic Production Cross Sections Measured in Proton-nucleus Collisions at √s =27.4 GeV, DOE Technical Report, April 1986 Georges Charpak: A Revolution in Particle Detection 1968: Georges Charpak Revolutionizes Detection, CERN Georges Charpak, Physics Nobel Winner … Georges Charpak Dies at 86 … Retrospective: Georges Charpak (1924 - 2010) Georges Charpak: Hardwired for Science (Interview), CERN Courier, February 23, 2009 Interview with Georges Charpak (video) Professor Georges Charpak at UNESCO for the Launch of the 2005 International Year of Physics (video)
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