Georges Charpak

About Georges Charpak

Who is it?: Physicist
Birth Day: March 08, 1924
Birth Place: Dąbrowica, Poland, Polish
Citizenship: French
Alma mater: École des Mines Collège de France
Known for: Multiwire proportional chamber
Spouse(s): Dominique Vidal (m. 1953; 3 children)
Awards: Nobel Prize in Physics, 1992
Fields: Physics

Georges Charpak

Georges Charpak was born on March 08, 1924 in Dąbrowica, Poland, Polish, is Physicist. Georges Charpak was a Polish-born French Nobel laureate physicist who came into prominence for his invention of subatomic particle detectors, in particular multi-wire proportional chamber. His invention was revolutionary as it changed the face of high-energy physics. Such was the use of multiwire chambers that by 1990s the detectors were at the heart of almost every experiment in particle physics. His chamber also began to have its application in medicine, biology, and industry. Interestingly, much before he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention, two researchers who used Charpak’s invention for identifying subatomic phenomena, received their Nobel Prize. Apart from making historic scientific discoveries and invention, Charpak held numerous administrative responsibilities in his life. He was the professor-in-residence at École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles in Paris and member of the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
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Occupation Scientists
Age 86 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born March 08, 1924 (Dąbrowica, Poland, Polish)
Birthday March 08
Town/City Dąbrowica, Poland, Polish
Nationality Polish

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Biography/Timeline

1941

Georges Charpak was born Jerzy Charpak to Jewish parents, Anna (Szapiro) and Maurice Charpak, in the village of Dąbrowica in Poland (now Dubrovytsia in Ukraine). Charpak's family moved from Poland to Paris when he was seven years old, beginning his study of mathematics in 1941 at the Lycée Saint Louis. The actor and film Director André Charpak was his brother.

1943

During World War II Charpak served in the resistance and was imprisoned by Vichy authorities in 1943. In 1944 he was deported to the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, where he remained until the camp was liberated in 1945.

1945

After classes préparatoires studies at Lycée Saint-Louis in Paris and later at Lycée Joffre in Montpellier, he joined in 1945 the Paris-based École des Mines, one of the most prestigious engineering schools in France. The following year he became a naturalized French citizen. He graduated in 1948, earning the French degree of Civil Engineer of Mines (Ingénieur Civil des Mines equivalent to a Master's degree) becoming a pupil in the laboratory of Frédéric Joliot-Curie at the Collège de France during 1949, the year after Curie had directed construction of the first atomic pile within France. While at the Collège, Charpak secured a research position for the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). He received his PhD in 1954 from Nuclear Physics at the Collège de France, receiving the qualification after having written a thesis on the subject of very low radiation due to disintegration of nuclei (Charpak & Suzor).

1953

Charpak married Dominique Vidal in 1953. They had three children.

1985

In 1959, he joined the staff of CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Geneva, where he invented and developed the multiwire proportional chamber. The chamber was patented and that quickly superseded the old bubble chambers, allowing for better data processing. This new creation had been made public during 1968. Charpak was later to become a joint Inventor with Nlolc and Policarpo of the scintillation drift chamber during the latter parts of the 1970s. He eventually retired from CERN in 1991. In 1980, Georges Charpak became professor-in-residence at École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles in Paris (ESPCI) and held the Joliot-Curie Chair there in 1984. This is where he developed and demonstrated the powerful applications of the particle detectors he invented, most notably for enabling better health diagnostics. He was the co-founder of a number of start-up in the biolab arena, including Molecular Engines Laboratories, Biospace Instruments and SuperSonic Imagine – together with Mathias Fink. He was elected to the French Academy of Sciences on 20 May 1985.

1992

Georges Charpak was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992 "for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber", with affiliations to both École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles (ESPCI) and CERN. This was the last time a single person was awarded the physics prize, as of 2017.

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