Curriculum Vitae

(Translation)

Born
	August 1 1924 in Dabrovica, Poland Naturalized French citizen in 1946
Studies
	Lycée Saint Louis in Paris
	Lycée de Montpellier
1945-1947	Ecole des Mines (Mining school) in Paris
Degrees
1948	Bachelor of Science. Mining engineer.
1954	Ph. D. Physics. Experimental research in Nuclear Physics at College de France
Positions
1948-1959	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
1959-1991	Centre Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN)
Research
1960	Participated in the first exact measurement of the magnetic momentum of the muon
1961-1967	Development of various types of nonphotographic scintillation chambers
1962-1967	Nuclear structure studied by reactions (p+2p)
1968	Introduction of proportional multiwire chambers
1974	Introduction of spherical drift chambers for studies of proteins by X-ray diffraction (Orsay)
1979-1989	Introduction of multistage avalanche chambers and application of photon counters for the imaging ionizing radiations
1985-1991	Participated in experiments at Fermilab (USA). Introduction of chambers based on luminescent avalanches. Development of instrumentation for biological research using b-ray imaging (Centre Médical Universitaire de Genève.

From Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes 1992, Editor Tore Frängsmyr, [Nobel Foundation], Stockholm, 1993

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