Location Paris, Ile-de-France, France Regions European Union (EU), Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male
Georges Charpak was born in 1924 in Dabrovica, Poland, and became a French citizen in 1946.
He studied in Montpellier and Paris. In 1946 he received his BSc in Engineering. He holds a PhD in Physics (including experimental research in nuclear physics) from the Collège de France.
Georges worked at the CNRS from 1948 to 1959, before moving to CERN
in Geneva. In 1984 he was awarded the Joliot-Curie Professor at the Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie of Paris.
In 1992 Georges Charpak was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for the development of particle detectors, specializing in the multiwire proportional chamber, an elegant and economical solution to a complex problem.
His pioneering work came in 1968, when he realized the importance of connecting the detector directly to a computer, enabling researchers to record the trajectories of particles with great accuracy and in much larger numbers compared with previous techniques.
