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Georges Charpak

1924 - 2010

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Georges Charpak (French: [ʒɔʁʒ ʃaʁpak]; born Jerzy Charpak; 1 August 1924 – 29 September 2010) was a Polish-born French physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992 for his invention of the multiwire proportional chamber. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georges Charpak has received more than 224,692 page views. His biography is available in 70 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 67 in 2019). Georges Charpak is the 145th most popular physicist (up from 165th in 2019), the 73rd most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 76th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Ukrainian Physicist.

Georges Charpak is most famous for his invention of the particle detector, a device that detects subatomic particles.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Georges Charpak ranks 145 out of 851. Before him are Rudolf Mössbauer, George Paget Thomson, Donald A. Glaser, Auguste Piccard, Kip Thorne, and Jacques Charles. After him are Pavel Cherenkov, Hannes Alfvén, Simon van der Meer, Karl Schwarzschild, Willard Boyle, and Johann Jakob Balmer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Georges Charpak ranks 22. Before him are Lauren Bacall, Sergei Parajanov, Paul Feyerabend, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Maurice Jarre, and Benny Hill. After him are Jovanka Broz, Ramiz Alia, Willard Boyle, Roger Guillemin, Robert Solow, and James Baldwin. Among people deceased in 2010, Georges Charpak ranks 15. Before him are Bobby Farrell, Dennis Hopper, Claude Chabrol, Éric Rohmer, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, and Juan Antonio Samaranch. After him are Ali Hassan al-Majid, Maurice Allais, Vasily Smyslov, Marshall Warren Nirenberg, Zecharia Sitchin, and Néstor Kirchner.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Georges Charpak ranks 73 out of 1,365. Before him are Stanislaw Ulam (1909), Daniel of Galicia (1201), Sviatoslav Richter (1915), David Oistrakh (1908), Sergey Bubka (1963), and Isaac Babel (1894). After him are Sonia Delaunay (1885), Anatoliy Solovianenko (1932), Vladimir Tatlin (1885), Yuri Dolgorukiy (1095), Larisa Latynina (1934), and Nachman of Breslov (1772).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Ukraine

Among physicists born in Ukraine, Georges Charpak ranks 2. Before him are George Gamow (1904). After him are Moshé Feldenkrais (1904), Abram Ioffe (1880), Evgeny Lifshitz (1915), Ivan Puluj (1845), Anatoly Alexandrov (1903), Dmitri Ivanenko (1904), Matvei Bronstein (1906), Vladimir Veksler (1907), Julius Edgar Lilienfeld (1882), and Isaak Khalatnikov (1919).

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