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Charpak produced what he called multiwire proportional chambers, in which a series of thin wires in parallel roles were suspended between two flat cathodes.

Georges Charpak dies at 86; French physicist won Nobel Prize - latimes.com 2010

Georges Charpak, who has died aged 86, won the Nobel prize for physics in 1992 for his invention and subsequent development of the multiwire proportional chamber (MWPC), a type of particle detector now widely used in high-energy particle physics, biophysics and medicine.

Georges Charpak obituary Frank Close 2010

It was there he developed the multiwire proportional chamber, a particle detector that used computers to collect data 1,000 times faster than previous devices.

Georges Charpak, 86; Physicist won Nobel for particle detector T. Rees Shapiro 2010

I have trained larger trees to hang downward by securing some multiwire, you know the kind with several strands wrapped together, around the branch and attaching the wire to a cinder block.

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All of these requirements are fulfilled by the multiwire proportional chamber, the detector which Georges

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1992 - Presentation Speech 1997

Charpak, France, for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1992 - Presentation Speech 1997

The multiwire chamber – both the proportional chamber and the drift chamber

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1992 1992

Charpak's invention was the multiwire proportional chamber, where each wire acts as a detector.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1992 1992

The principle of the multiwire proportional chamber.

Press Release: The 1992 Nobel Prize in Physics 1992

When the charm quark was discovered in 1974, resulting in the award of the 1976 Nobel Prize in physics to B. Richter and S.C.C. Ting, several multiwire proportional chambers were used.

Press Release: The 1992 Nobel Prize in Physics 1992