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Nobel Physics Prize Goes to Charpak for Inventing Particle Detectors

JAN 01, 1993

DOI: 10.1063/1.2808774

The 1992 Nobel Prize in Physics has gone to a virtuoso instrument maker. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the prize to Georges Charpak of France “for his inventionand development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber.”

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Volume 46, Number 1

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