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	Georges Charpak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Georges Charpak, 1992 Nobel Prize laureate, is well known in Canada.
		In the early 80's, Lev Schektmann, a physicist who then worked at the Georges Charpak detector research department at CERN1 in Geneva, came up with the idea of a medical radiology application for the wire chamber, which is commonly used in nuclear physics.
		Georges Charpak has planned for a device which can increase space resolution (now at 0.6 x 0.6 mm) with a detector with a higher element density.
	ambafrance-ca.org /HYPERLAB/PEOPLE/_charpak.html (1424 words)

	Georges Charpak Summary
		Georges Charpak received the Nobel Prize in physics in 1992 for his invention and development of particle detectors, most notably the multiwire proportional chamber.
		Charpak is credited with creating instrumentation that is used by thousands of other scientists at CERN, the European laboratory for particle physics located in Geneva, Switzerland, as well as by researchers in other prominent laboratories involved in the study of the nature of matter.
		Charpak was born in the village of Dąbrowica in Poland (modern Dubrovytsia, Ukraine) to a family of Polish, Jewish and Ukrainian ancestry.
	www.bookrags.com /Georges_Charpak (1837 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Georges Charpak
		Georges Charpak (born August 1, 1924) is a French physicist.
		Charpak was born in the village of Dąbrowica in Poland (modern Dubrovytsia, Ukraine) to a Jewish family of Polish/Ukrainian origin.
		During World War II Charpak served in the resistance and was imprisoned by Vichy authorities in 1943.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Georges_Charpak (314 words)

	Georges Charpak
		Georges Charpak was born on August 1, 1924, in Dubrovytsia, Volyn' (Ukraine).
		Charpak invented the multiwire proportional chamber at CERN.
		Charpak has actively contributed to the use of is new type of detector in various applications in for example medicine and biology.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/charpak.html (465 words)

	Georges Charpak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		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.
		Charpak built the first multiwire proportional chamber in 1968.
		Samuel Ting's discovery of the J/psi particle and Carlo Rubbia's discovery of the W and Z particles, which won Nobel Prizes in 1976 and 1984, respectively, involved the use of multiwire chambers; and by the 1990s such detectors were at the heart of almost every experiment in particle physics.
	physics.nobel.brainparad.com /georges_charpak.html (320 words)

	Science in Poland - Georges Charpak
		Georges Charpak, a French citizen, was born on August 1, 1924 in Poland.
		These characteristics of Charpak's detector - high spatial resolution and high repetition rate - were particularly important in the study of rare interactions or the creation of short-lived exotic particles which often necessitate the use of intense beams and the sampling of a large number of events in a short period of time.
		Samuel Ting's discovery of the J/psi meson and Carlo Rubbia's discovery of the W and Z particles, which won Nobel Prizes in 1976 and 1984, respectively, involved the use of multiwire chambers; and by the 1990s such detectors were at the heart of almost every experiment in particle physics.
	www.staff.amu.edu.pl /~zbzw/ph/sci/gc.htm (587 words)

	27 September 2005 - CERN: CERN receives prestigious Milestone recognition from IEEE
		The plaque was unveiled by Mr Anderson and Georges Charpak, the Nobel-prize winning inventor of wire chamber technology at CERN in 1968.
		Particle physics research was revolutionised in 1968 when Georges Charpak published a paper describing the multi-wire proportional chamber, a forerunner to many of the particle detectors in use at CERN today.
		Charpak’s invention also made it possible to increase the rate of data collection by a factor of a thousand.
	www.interactions.org /cms/?pid=1021952 (622 words)

	IEEE Honors CERN with a Milestone
		The prize was delivered by W. Cleon Anderson, president of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and Georges Charpak, the Nobel-prize winning inventor of wire chamber technology at CERN in 1968.
		Particle physics research was revolutionized in 1968 when Charpak published a paper describing the multi-wire proportional chamber, a forerunner to many of the particle detectors used at CERN today.
		The point was underlined by Charpak himself, who stressed the importance of intellectual freedom, saying of his time at the Laboratory, "CERN was a fantastic place because of the freedom I had, which permitted me to do a lot of things that were unexpected," he said.
	www.hpcwire.com /hpc/480186.html (513 words)

	Nuclear Dangers Demand 'Abandonment of Sovereignty'
		Charpak: The wavering in vigilance is caused by the excessive self-confidence of a number of supervisors in the nuclear energy sector.
		Charpak: At the end of the Cold War, we reached, in matters of military nuclear power, a level that came from madness.
		Charpak: It is one of the unfortunate consequences of our monarchic and centralizing tradition.
	www.watchingamerica.com /lefigaro000050.html (2548 words)

	Borzoi Reader \| Authors \| Richard L. Garwin and Georges Charpak
		Georges Charpak is a member of the French Académie des Sciences and of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
		In Megawatts and Megatons, two of the world’s most eminent physicists—French Nobel Prize laureate Georges Charpak and American Enrico Fermi Award–winner Richard L. Garwin—assess with consummate authority the benefits of nuclear energy and the dangers of nuclear weaponry.
		Meanwhile, nuclear power already provides one-sixth of all electrical energy in the world—France, for instance, derives 80% of its electricity from reactors— but nuclear power has met with great resistance in the United States, where the specter of the Three Mile Island breakdown still looms in the public’s consciousness.
	www.randomhouse.com /knopf/authors/garwin (491 words)

	Johns Hopkins University Press \| Books \| Debunked!
		Nobel Prize winner Georges Charpak and physics professor Henri Broch team up to show you the tricks of the trade and sleight of hand that keep astrologers, TV psychics, and spoon benders in business.
		Charpak and Broch have done a fine job, sweeping out the money-changers from the temple of science and exposing their tricks.
		Georges Charpak is a physicist at the European Center for Particle Physics (CERN) in Geneva and winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in physics.
	www.press.jhu.edu /books/title_pages/3364.html (792 words)

	AllRefer.com - Georges Charpak (Physics, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Georges Charpak[zhOrzh shArpAk´] Pronunciation Key, 1924–;, French physicist, b.
		Affiliated with CERN (the European Laboratory for Particle Physics), Charpak won the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of several particle detectors that have greatly aided scientific experimentation in particle physics.
		Of these detectors, the multiwire proportional chamber is the most well known.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/Charpak.html (164 words)

	Debunked! ESP, Telekinesis, and Other Pseudoscience - Physics Today May 2005
		Knowledge helps filter out whatever truth might be contained in an attractive story about a spoon being bent by staring at it or about some new guru who has the secret to eternal life or can communicate with the next "UFO" that darts across the sky.
		Charpak is a physicist at CERN who won the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of several particle detectors, and Henri Broch is a physics professor at the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis in France who also teaches zetetics, the scientific investigation of paranormal phenomena.
		Charpak and Broch use their academic training to examine the logic and rationality of each case they dissect.
	www.physicstoday.org /vol-58/iss-5/p67a.html (499 words)

	symmetry - February 2005 - signal to background
		Using the sentences above, one of the authors of the book conducted an experiment and found that 69 percent of his students judged the description of their personality to be accurate.
		Charpak and Broch go beyond the basic parlor tricks, however, and demonstrate how pseudoscientists use simple science, statistics and psychology to dupe an audience.
		Writing for a general audience, Charpak and Broch use basic math and simple scientific arguments to support their explanations of the paranormal and beyond.
	www.symmetrymag.org /cms/?pid=1000056 (1689 words)

	Physics News Update Number 99 - THE PHYSICS NOBEL PRIZE FOR 1992 GOES TO GEORGES CHARPAK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In particular, his development of the multiwire proportional chamber in the 1960's allowed the trajectories of particles issuing from high- energy collisions to be tracked with a spatial precision of less than 1 mm.
		(Computers in Physics, Sep/Oct 1992.) Charpak, a Fench citizen, has spent much of his career at the CERN lab in Geneva.
		He was born in 1924 in Poland and received a PhD in 1955 from the Collge de France in Paris.
	www.aip.org /pnu/1992/split/pnu099-1.htm (327 words)

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		This kind of detector was invented by Georges Charpak, Nobel laureate 1992, for tracking of charged particles in particle physics experiments.
		The multi-wire proportional chamber (MWPC) developed in the late sixties by Georges Charpak, has thereafter been refined and diversified in a large variety of devices exploiting various gas properties and improving on performances.
		The third paper is Charpak's original paper of the multi wire proportional chamber to be read if you are interested.
	www.particle.kth.se /group_docs/particle/courses/xray_instr.html (3815 words)

	Georges Charpak Winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physics
		Georges Charpak — Curriculum Vitae (submitted by Chinnappan Baskar)
		Science in Poland - Georges Charpak (submitted by Daike)
		Georges Charpak Biography from Encyclopedia Britannica (submitted by www.britannica.com)
	nobelprizes.com /nobel/physics/1992a.html (93 words)

	The Garwin Archive
		He has testified to many Congressional committees on matters involving national security, transportation, energy policy and technology, and the like.
		(2001) (with Georges Charpak), and "De Tchernobyl en tchernobyls," (with Georges Charpak and Venance Journe) (2005).
		He was a member of the President's Science Advisory Committee 1962-65 and 1969-72, and of the Defense Science Board 1966-69.
	www.fas.org /rlg (548 words)

	Borzoi Reader \| Authors \| Richard L. Garwin and Georges Charpak
		We begin with a clarification of the nature of energy and of nuclear fission--the genie that poses both such peril and such promise.
		Excerpted from Megawatts and Megatons by Richard L. Garwin and Georges Charpak Copyright 2001 by Richard L. Garwin and Georges Charpak.
		Excerpted by permission of Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
	www.randomhouse.com /knopf/authors/garwin/excerpt.html (1440 words)

	Powell's Books - by
		In Megawatts and Megatons, world-renowned physicists Richard L. Garwin and Georges Charpak offer an accessible, eminently well-informed primer on two of the most important issues of our time: nuclear weapons and nuclear power.
		Making a strong and eloquent argument in favor of arms control, Garwin and Charpak outline specific strategies for achieving this goal worldwide.
		But they also demonstrate how nuclear power can provide an assured, economically feasible, and environmentally responsible source of energy—in a way that avoids the hazards of weapons proliferation.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=65-0226284271-2 (185 words)

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