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Georges Charpak
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History of science played a very important role for me.
— Nobel interview with Professor Georges Charpak by Joanna Rose, science writer, 6 December 2001.
Georges Charpak
French physicist (1924-2010)
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Lived 1924–2010, aged 86France
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He won the Nobel for inventing a machine that made invisible particle collisions visible — and fast. The multiwire proportional chamber let physicists see a thousand times more events than older detectors, turning experimental physics into something close to real-time.
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Born Hersz Georges Charpak on 1 August 1924 in Poland, he became a French physicist whose career turned on a single invention. The multiwire proportional chamber — a detector that tracked subatomic particles with unprecedented speed and precision — earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992. It was a tool that didn't just refine the field; it opened floodgates, letting experiments that once took months happen in hours. He died on 29 September 2010, decades after the device had become standard in labs worldwide.
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