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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...
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    Children Healthcare Innovation Award. Her father is Nobel Laureate Georges Charpak. Charpak grew up close to the France-Switzerland border where her father...
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  • dialoguist, film director and screenwriter. A brother of the physicist Georges Charpak he was an alumnus of the prestigious Lycée Henri-IV where he earned...
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  • Peace, 2022 Svetlana Alexievich*, born in Ukraine, Literature, 2015 Georges Charpak*, born in Ukraine, then a part of Poland, Physics, 1992 Roald Hoffmann*...
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    detector and an advancement of the wire chamber. Invented in 1996 by Georges Charpak and Ioannis Giomataris, Micromegas detectors are mainly used in experimental...
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  • (2010-10-27). "Nature Obituary Georges Charpak (1924–2010)". Nature. 467 (7319): 1048. doi:10.1038/4671048a. PMID 20981084. Charpak, Georges; Broch, Henri (2004)...
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    sometimes to insult their critics, among them the Nobel Prize recipient Georges Charpak. In October 2002, the Bogdanovs released an email containing apparently...
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    Richard L. Garwin, winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and Georges Charpak advise further study of the Energy amplifier in their book Megawatts...
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    The EOS imaging technology stems from the scientific findings of Georges Charpak (Nobel Prize in Physics, 1992) concerning radiation detection and particle...
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    Smolin considered the Bogdanoff papers nonsensical. Nobel laureate Georges Charpak later said on a French talk show that the Bogdanoffs' presence in the...
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  • Blackberries?. W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 225–243. ISBN 978-0393325720. Georges Charpak, Henri Broch, and Bart K. Holland (2004). Debunked! ESP, Telekinesis...
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    prize winners: Isidor Isaac Rabi (physics), Roald Hoffman (chemistry), Georges Charpak (physics) and S.Y. Agnon (literature). Henry Roth, who wrote Call It...
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  • the high sensitivity of a detector (multi-wire chamber) invented by Georges Charpak, which earned him the 1992 Nobel Prize. This technology not only enhances...
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  • Georges Antoine Chabot, French jurist and statesman Georges Chaperot, French screenwriter Georges Chappe, French road bicycle racer Georges Charpak,...
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  • there have been numerous proponents of nuclear energy, including Georges Charpak, Glenn T. Seaborg, Edward Teller, Alvin M. Weinberg, Eugene Wigner...
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    only non-zero (see law of truly large numbers). Some skeptics (e.g., Georges Charpak and Henri Broch) argue synchronicity is merely an instance of apophenia...
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  • in Economics, 1988 Léon Walras (1834–1910), mathematical economist Georges Charpak (1924–2010), Nobel Prize in Physics 1992 Ignacy Domeyko (1802–1889)...
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    fellowship to conduct research in the detector development group led by Georges Charpak. After finishing her first PhD in Delhi, Sharma moved to Geneva with...
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  • FBI and CIA March 7 – Kōbō Abe, Japanese novelist (d. 1993) March 8 Georges Charpak, Polish-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)...
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    Neher; Bert Sakmann Nadine Gordimer Aung San Suu Kyi Ronald Coase 1992 Georges Charpak Rudolph A. Marcus Edmond H. Fischer; Edwin G. Krebs Derek Walcott Rigoberta...
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  • Jean-Pierre Changeux (born 1936), neurochemist Georges Charpak (1924–2010), physicist, Nobel prize winner 1992 Georges Charpy (1865–1945), physicist and metallurgist...
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  • Costs for the first reactor are estimated at £2bn. Richard Garwin and Georges Charpak describe the energy amplifier in detail in their book "Megawatts and...
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    1992 Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to CERN staff researcher Georges Charpak "for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular...
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    go on to be Nobel Prize winners, including Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Georges Charpak, and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, who identify the school for assisting...
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    de France Thesis Etude électrochimique des radioéléments : Applications diverses (1930) Doctoral advisor Marie Curie Doctoral students Georges Charpak...
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  • de France, Higher School of Industrial Physics and Chemistry; 1992: Georges Charpak, Higher School of Industrial Physics and Chemistry and CERN (CNRS researcher...
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    forms of matter, in particular to liquid crystals and polymers" 1992 Georges Charpak (1924–2010) French "for his invention and development of particle detectors...
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    about 4,500 students. Junior high schools Collège Pierre Curie Collège Georges Charpak Collège Montaigne Collège Robespierre Senior high schools: Lycée Romain...
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  • between 0.025 mSv and 0.4 mSv, depending on geographical location. Georges Charpak notes that "the average dose received by the French population in 1986...
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  • microstrip gas, and those types of detectors that use silicon. In 1968, Georges Charpak, while at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), invented...
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