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    Georges Charpak (French: [ʃaʁpak]; born Jerzy Charpak, (1 August 1924 – 29 September 2010) was a Polish-born French physicist who was awarded the Nobel...
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  • microstrip gas, and those types of detectors that use silicon. In 1968, Georges Charpak, while at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), invented...
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    detector and an advancement of the wire chamber. Invented in 1996 by Georges Charpak and Ioannis Giomataris, Micromegas detectors are mainly used in experimental...
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  • Joliot-Curie (Chemistry, 1935), Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (Physics, 1991), Georges Charpak (Physics, 1992). Two thirds of the students enter the School following...
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    only non-zero (see law of truly large numbers). Some skeptics (e.g., Georges Charpak and Henri Broch) argue synchronicity is merely an instance of apophenia...
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    Children Healthcare Innovation Award. Her father is Nobel Laureate Georges Charpak. Charpak grew up close to the France-Switzerland border where her father...
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  • there have been numerous proponents of nuclear energy, including Georges Charpak, Glenn T. Seaborg, Edward Teller, Alvin M. Weinberg, Eugene Wigner...
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  • dialoguist, film director and screenwriter. A brother of the physicist Georges Charpak he was an alumnus of the prestigious Lycée Henri-IV where he earned...
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    (2010-10-27). "Nature Obituary Georges Charpak (1924–2010)". Nature. 467 (7319): 1048. doi:10.1038/4671048a. PMID 20981084. Charpak, Georges; Holland, Henri Broch...
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  • the high sensitivity of a detector (multi-wire chamber) invented by Georges Charpak, which earned him the 1992 Nobel prize. EOS is commercialized by the...
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