Georges Charpak, Nobel laureate 1992 (1924-2010)

摘要

Born in Poland, Georges Charpak came to France at the age of 7. During world war two, he engaged himself early against the invaders and was deported to the concentration camp of Dachau. He fortunately came back alive, obtained the French citize'n- ship in 1946 and graduated from one of the most prestigious engineering schools in France, the "Ecole des Mines de Paris". His carrier as a research physicist started in 1948 at CNRS (French National Centre of Scientific Research), when he entered Frederic Joliot's laboratory at College de France in Paris.