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charpak, georges

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Char·pak   (shär-päk')   
Polish-born French physicist who won a 1992 Nobel Prize for developing a particle detector.
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Charpak, Georges

Polish-born French physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1992 for his invention of subatomic particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber.

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