Georges Charpak

Georges Charpak

Georges Charpak (1 August 1924 – 29 September 2010) was a French physicist from a Polish Jewish family who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992. Georges Charpak was born to Jewish parents, Anna (Szapiro) and Maurice Charpak, in the village of Dąbrowica in Poland (now Dubrovytsia, Ukraine). Charpak's family moved from Poland to Paris when he was seven years old, beginning his maths study in 1941 at the Lycée Saint Louis. During World War II Charpak served in the resistance and was imprisoned by Vichy authorities in 1943. In 1944 he was deported to the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, where he remained until the camp was liberated in 1945.


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