Charpak

[shahr-pahk]

noun

1. Georges 1924–2010, French physicist, born in Poland: Nobel Prize 1992.

Example Sentences

Justin Kempson, sales and innovation director at Huntingdon packaging company Charpak, says he can see the cost of living crisis affecting business.

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The babies experience the same movements as they do when they are in the womb and are comforted by the beating of the mother’s heart, said Nathalie Charpak, a French pediatrician and one of the founders of Colombia’s Kangaroo Foundation.

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Charpak’s invention — a gas-filled box in which amplifiers boosted the signals detected by each wire — allowed for a 1,000-fold increase in detection rate.

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Accordingly, he said, Dr. Charpak measured the infinitesimal electric impulses that particles leave as they race through one of his devices.

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The family moved to Paris in 1932 when Dr. Charpak was 7.

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