Georges Charpak was a Polish-born French physicist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992.
14 Facts About Georges Charpak
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Georges Charpak was born in 1926 to Jerzy Charpak to Jewish parents, Anna and Maurice Charpak, in the village of Dabrowica in Poland.
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The actor and film director Andre Georges Charpak was his younger brother.
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Georges Charpak graduated in 1948, earning the French degree of Civil Engineer of Mines becoming a pupil in the laboratory of Frederic Joliot-Curie at the College de France during 1949, the year after Curie had directed construction of the first atomic pile within France.
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Georges Charpak received his PhD in 1954 in nuclear physics at the College de France, receiving the qualification after having written a thesis on the subject of very-low-energy radiation due to disintegration of nuclei.
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Georges Charpak was later to become a joint inventor with Nlolc and Policarpo of the scintillation drift chamber during the latter parts of the 1970s.
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In 1980, Georges Charpak became professor-in-residence at Ecole superieure de physique et de chimie industrielles in Paris and held the Joliot-Curie Chair there in 1984.
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Georges Charpak was elected to the French Academy of Sciences on 20 May 1985.
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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 Ecole superieure de physique et de chimie industrielles and CERN.
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In 1999, Georges Charpak received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.
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In France, Georges Charpak was a very strong advocate for nuclear power.
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Georges Charpak was a member of the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
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The pediatrician Nathalie Georges Charpak was born on 1955 and is his daughter.
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Georges Charpak died on 29 September 2010, in Paris, at the age of 86.