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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