Georges Charpak dies at 86; French physicist won Nobel Prize
Friday, October 8, 2010 - 00:30
in Astronomy & Space
He developed detectors that allowed near-instantaneous identification and analysis of particles produced in accelerator collisions.French physicist Georges Charpak, who revolutionized the study of elementary particles by developing detectors that allowed near-instantaneous identification and analysis of particles produced in accelerator collisions, a feat that won him the 1992 Nobel Prize in physics, died Sept. 29 in Paris. He was 86.