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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

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Georges Charpak is the 164th most popular physicist (down from 145th in 2019), the 58th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 73rd 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 164 out of 851. Before him are Felix Bloch, Hans Georg Dehmelt, Johann Jakob Balmer, Joseph Henry, Hippolyte Fizeau, and Augustin-Jean Fresnel. After him are Gerd Binnig, Ernst Abbe, Paul Langevin, Hideki Yukawa, François Englert, and George E. Smith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Georges Charpak ranks 20. Before him are Süleyman Demirel, Khamtai Siphandon, Jean-François Lyotard, Benoit Mandelbrot, Maurice Jarre, and Sarah Vaughan. After him are Lauren Bacall, Roger Guillemin, Jacques Le Goff, Sergei Parajanov, Paul Feyerabend, and Lys Assia. Among people deceased in 2010, Georges Charpak ranks 14. Before him are Ronnie James Dio, James Black, Gloria Stuart, Louise Bourgeois, Eddie Fisher, and Benoit Mandelbrot. After him are Maurice Allais, Éric Rohmer, Bobby Farrell, Alois Brunner, Claude Chabrol, and Dennis Hopper.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Georges Charpak ranks 58 out of 1,365. Before him are Vladimir Horowitz (1903), Sergei Korolev (1906), Andrei Chikatilo (1936), Sholem Aleichem (1859), Moshe Sharett (1894), and Sviatoslav Richter (1915). After him are Levi Eshkol (1895), Selman Waksman (1888), David Oistrakh (1908), Lesya Ukrainka (1871), Nikolai Berdyaev (1874), and Isaac Babel (1894).

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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), Dmitri Ivanenko (1904), Ivan Puluj (1845), Vladimir Veksler (1907), Julius Edgar Lilienfeld (1882), Anatoly Alexandrov (1903), Matvei Bronstein (1906), and Gregory Breit (1899).

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