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Georges Charpak (left) and his colleagues
working on a multiwire chamber at CERN in
Geneva in 1970.
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In the late 1960s multiwire
chambers were developed, in particular by George
Charpak and his colleagues at Cern.
With the multiwire chamber it
became possible to determine the trajectories of the
numerous charged particles produced in high energy
particle collisions with great precision. In addition
the data taking rate increased a lot, making it
possible to detect very rare processes. This lead to
a breakthrough in the detailed study of many rare
processes.
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The Nobel Prize in
Physics 1992 - Georges Charpak »
