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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1992

"for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber"
Georges Charpak
Georges Charpak
France
École Supérieure de Physique et Chimie
Paris, France; CERN
Geneva, Switzerland
b. 1924
(in Dabrovica, Poland)
 
 
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