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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