Georges Charpak (born August 1, 1924) is a noted physicist.
Born in Dubrovytsia , Volyn' (Ukraine), he was active in France. Charpak's family moved from Ukraine to Paris when he was seven years old.
During World War II Charpak served in the resistance and was imprisoned by Vichy authorities in 1943. In 1944 he was deported to the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, where he remained until the camp was liberated in 1945. Charpak became a French citizen in 1946.
He received his doctorate in 1955 from the College de France, Paris, where he worked in the laboratory of Frederic Joliot-Curie. In 1959 he joined the staff of CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Geneva and in 1984 also became Joliot-Curie professor at the School of Advanced Studies in Physics and Chemistry, Paris.
He was made a member of the French Academy of Science in 1985. In 1992, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber".
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