French physicist Georges Charpak, who revolutionized the study of elementary particles by developing detectors that allowed near-instantaneous identification and analysis of particles produced in ...

Georges Charpak, who died on September 29 aged 86, served in the French Resistance, survived a Nazi concentration camp and in 1992 won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his development of the multi-wire ...

In 1932, a seven-year-old Polish boy arrived in Paris. He had no idea he’d become a resistance fighter and Nobel laureate. What an unexpected journey. His early life was a mix of adventure and science ...

Georges Charpak, who won the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing a device to sift through the billions of hurtling subatomic particles liberated by collisions in atom smashers, opening the way ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This object consists of an aluminum ...

While testing their newly developed multiwire proportional chamber (see Object ID no. 1977.0708.02), Charpak and his collaborators found that the difference in arrival times of electrons at adjacent ...

The Polish-French physicist Georges Charpak, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1992 for his work on particle detectors, died yesterday at the age of 86. Charpak spent most of his career at CERN ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Roland Horisberger receives the award "for his numerous contributions to the development of precision silicon vertex detectors for particle physics experiments as well as for the application of these ...