1924 - 2010
Georges Charpak (French: [ʃaʁpak]; born Jerzy Charpak, (1 August 1924 – 29 September 2010) was a Polish-born French physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georges Charpak has received more than 211,552 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 64 in 2019). Georges Charpak is the 165th most popular physicist (down from 155th in 2019), the 76th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 75th 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, Georges Charpak ranks 165 out of 717. Before him are Willard Boyle, Murray Gell-Mann, Steven Weinberg, Donald A. Glaser, Polykarp Kusch, and Laura Bassi. After him are Benjamin Thompson, James Rainwater, Syukuro Manabe, Leon Cooper, Robert H. Goddard, and Igor Kurchatov.
1924 - 2011
HPI: 64.68
Rank: 159
1929 - 2019
HPI: 64.65
Rank: 160
1933 - 2021
HPI: 64.63
Rank: 161
1926 - 2013
HPI: 64.54
Rank: 162
1911 - 1993
HPI: 64.48
Rank: 163
1711 - 1778
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 164
1924 - 2010
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 165
1753 - 1814
HPI: 64.33
Rank: 166
1917 - 1986
HPI: 64.32
Rank: 167
1931 - Present
HPI: 64.31
Rank: 168
1930 - Present
HPI: 64.23
Rank: 169
1882 - 1945
HPI: 64.20
Rank: 170
1903 - 1960
HPI: 64.14
Rank: 171
Among people born in 1924, Georges Charpak ranks 27. Before him are Maurice Jarre, Sergei Parajanov, Henry Mancini, Mário Soares, Willard Boyle, and Sidney Lumet. After him are Jovanka Broz, Ezer Weizman, Lee Marvin, Robert Solow, Jin Yong, and Eva Marie Saint. Among people deceased in 2010, Georges Charpak ranks 20. Before him are Bobby Farrell, Marshall Warren Nirenberg, Gennady Yanayev, Ali Hassan al-Majid, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, and Maurice Allais. After him are Alois Brunner, Jean Simmons, Vasily Smyslov, Viktor Chernomyrdin, Dino De Laurentiis, and Miep Gies.
1924 - 2009
HPI: 66.40
Rank: 21
1924 - 1990
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 22
1924 - 1994
HPI: 65.69
Rank: 23
1924 - 2017
HPI: 65.09
Rank: 24
1924 - 2011
HPI: 64.68
Rank: 25
1924 - 2011
HPI: 64.63
Rank: 26
1924 - 2010
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 27
1924 - 2013
HPI: 64.06
Rank: 28
1924 - 2005
HPI: 63.74
Rank: 29
1924 - 1987
HPI: 63.68
Rank: 30
1924 - 2023
HPI: 63.66
Rank: 31
1924 - 2018
HPI: 63.65
Rank: 32
1924 - Present
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 33
1949 - 2010
HPI: 66.84
Rank: 14
1927 - 2010
HPI: 65.31
Rank: 15
1937 - 2010
HPI: 65.20
Rank: 16
1941 - 2010
HPI: 64.97
Rank: 17
1916 - 2010
HPI: 64.73
Rank: 18
1911 - 2010
HPI: 64.50
Rank: 19
1924 - 2010
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 20
1912 - 2010
HPI: 64.43
Rank: 21
1929 - 2010
HPI: 63.73
Rank: 22
1921 - 2010
HPI: 63.68
Rank: 23
1938 - 2010
HPI: 63.49
Rank: 24
1919 - 2010
HPI: 63.17
Rank: 25
1909 - 2010
HPI: 63.02
Rank: 26
Among people born in Ukraine, Georges Charpak ranks 76 out of 1,083. Before him are Anton Makarenko (1888), Andrey Yeryomenko (1892), Fanny Kaplan (1890), Baal Shem Tov (1700), Volodymyr Zelensky (1978), and Ivan Franko (1856). After him are Yaropolk I of Kiev (955), Karl Radek (1885), Vladimir Ivashko (1932), Anacharsis (-700), Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (1884), and Sergey Bubka (1963).
1888 - 1939
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 70
1892 - 1970
HPI: 64.76
Rank: 71
1890 - 1918
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 72
1700 - 1760
HPI: 64.66
Rank: 73
1978 - Present
HPI: 64.60
Rank: 74
1856 - 1916
HPI: 64.52
Rank: 75
1924 - 2010
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 76
955 - 980
HPI: 64.43
Rank: 77
1885 - 1939
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 78
1932 - 1994
HPI: 64.36
Rank: 79
700 BC - 600 BC
HPI: 64.32
Rank: 80
1884 - 1963
HPI: 64.26
Rank: 81
1963 - Present
HPI: 64.09
Rank: 82
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), Julius Edgar Lilienfeld (1882), Dmitri Ivanenko (1904), Isaak Khalatnikov (1919), Maurice Goldhaber (1911), and Gregory Breit (1899).
1904 - 1968
HPI: 67.38
Rank: 1
1924 - 2010
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 2
1904 - 1984
HPI: 60.49
Rank: 3
1880 - 1960
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 4
1915 - 1985
HPI: 53.38
Rank: 5
1845 - 1918
HPI: 52.64
Rank: 6
1903 - 1994
HPI: 51.48
Rank: 7
1882 - 1963
HPI: 50.25
Rank: 8
1904 - 1994
HPI: 49.84
Rank: 9
1919 - 2021
HPI: 48.00
Rank: 10
1911 - 2011
HPI: 46.36
Rank: 11
1899 - 1981
HPI: 45.42
Rank: 12