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Timeline of particle physics technology
Timeline
of
particle physics
technology
1896
-
Charles Wilson[?]
discovers that energetic particles produce droplet tracks in
supersaturated
gases
1908
-
Hans Geiger
and
Ernest Rutherford
invent the
Geiger counter
1911
- Charles Wilson finishes a sophisticated
cloud chamber[?]
1934
-
Ernest Lawrence
and
Stan Livingston[?]
invent the
cyclotron
1945
-
Edwin McMillan[?]
devises a
synchrotron[?]
1952
-
Donald Glaser[?]
develops the
bubble chamber
1968
-
Georges Charpak[?]
and
Roger Bouclier[?]
build the first multiwire proportional mode particle detection chamber
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