Awarded Nessim-Habif Award (2013).
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Georges Charpak
Hersz Georges Charpak was a Polish-born French physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992 for his invention of the multiwire proportional chamber.
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Born 1 August 1924 · Died 29 September 2010 · Q153178
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2013· 1 entry
2010· 1 entry
Died 2010-09-29.
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2007· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (2007).
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1999· 1 entry
Charpak received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the National Order of Merit (1997).
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded Honorary doctor of the University of Ottawa (1995).
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1994· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of Coimbra (1994).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Université libre de Bruxelles (1994).
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1993· 2 entries
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1993).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1993).
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1992· 4 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1992).
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"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
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For his invention of the multiwire proportional chamber
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1989· 2 entries
Awarded High Energy and Particle Physics Prize (1989).
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(the first edition of the prize) "for the development of detectors: multiwire proportional chambers, drift chambers and several other gaseous detectors, and their applications in other fields"
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1980· 1 entry
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
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1977· 1 entry
Awarded Honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva (1977).
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1973· 1 entry
Awarded Jean-Ricard Prize (1973).
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1972· 1 entry
Together with Daniele Amati, he launched a petition against the Vietnam War
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1971· 1 entry
Won CNRS silver medal (1971).
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1959· 1 entry
Charpak joined the staff of CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Geneva, where he invented and developed the multiwire proportional chamber
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1954· 1 entry
In nuclear physics at the Collège de France, receiving the qualification after having written a thesis on the subject of very-low-energy radiation due to disintegration of nuclei (Charpak & Suzor)
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1948· 1 entry
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
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1945· 1 entry
The Paris-based École des Mines, one of the most prestigious engineering schools in France
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1944· 1 entry
Was deported to the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, where he remained until the camp was liberated in 1945
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1924· 1 entry
Born 1924-08-01.
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