1970: Georges Charpak and his multiwire chamber at
#CERN #ThrowbackThursday #TBTThis photo shows from left to right Georges Charpak, Fabio Sauli and Jean-Claude Santiard working on the multiwire proportional chamber developed in 1968 by Georges Charpak. It was a gas-filled box with a large number of parallel detector wires, each connected to individual amplifiers. Linked to a computer, it could achieve a counting rate a thousand times better than bubble chambers or spark chambers detecting techniques.
Georges Charpak was awarded the 1992 Nobel prize in physics for this invention. He revolutionised the detection of elementary particles, which passed form the manual to the electronic era.
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