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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1992

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1992
 

The Royal Swedish
Academy of Sciences
awards the 1992 Nobel
Prize in Physics to
Georges Charpak
for his invention and
development of particle
detectors, in particular
the multiwire
proportional chamber.

 

 

Georges Charpak
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

 

Contents:
Introduction »
Observing the interior of matter »
The electron avalanche in the detector »
Six quarks and six leptons »
The multiwire chamber »
The multiwire chamber in action »
Further reading »
Based on materials from the 1992 Nobel Poster for Physics.
Credits and references for the poster »

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