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Charpak

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Char·pak  (shär-päk), Georges Born 1924.
Polish-born French physicist who won a 1992 Nobel Prize for developing a particle detector.
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French physicist Georges Charpak of the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland, won the physics prize for the invention and development of electronic particle detectors capable of tracking the ephemeral subatomic products of high-energy collisions between particles in accelerators.
Electron chemistry, detector physics by Peterson, Ivars / Science News
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