Background
Georges Charpak was born on August 1, 1924, in Dabrovica, Poland. He was the son of Maurice and Anna (Szapiro) Charpak.
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Can you walk over red-hot charcoal without burning your feet? Appear to stop the beating of your heart? Bend spoons using the power of your mind? In Debunked! Nobel Prize winner Georges Charpak and physics professor Henri Broch team up to show you the tricks of the trade and sleight of hand that keep astrologers, TV psychics, and spoon benders in business. Using only the simplest of science, the authors explore the effectiveness of horoscopes―the blander the better―and why, with a television audience in the millions, any strange, unlikely prediction is almost certain to come true. If such insider information does not impress your colleagues, why not pierce your tongue with a skewer or demonstrate your eerie powers by using telepathy and the telephone to get a distant friend to intuit the number and suit of a card picked at random. Charpak and Broch show you how. Not merely an expose of magic tricks, this book demonstrates how pseudoscientists use science, statistics, and psychology to bamboozle an audience―sometimes for fun, sometimes for profit. During the most scientifically advanced period in human history, belief in the paranormal and the supernatural is alarmingly common. Entertaining and enlightening, Debunked! is the antidote, vigorously asserting the virtues of doubt, skepticism, curiosity, and scientific knowledge. This lucid translation makes the arguments clear, understandable, and a pleasure to read.
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2004
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In Megawatts and Megatons, world-renowned physicists Richard L. Garwin and Georges Charpak offer an accessible, eminently well-informed primer on two of the most important issues of our time: nuclear weapons and nuclear power. They begin by explaining clearly and concisely how nuclear fission and fusion work in both warheads and reactors, and how they can impact human health. Making a strong and eloquent argument in favor of arms control, Garwin and Charpak outline specific strategies for achieving this goal worldwide. But they also demonstrate how nuclear power can provide an assured, economically feasible, and environmentally responsible source of energy—in a way that avoids the hazards of weapons proliferation. Numerous figures enliven the text, including cartoons by Sempé. In Megawatts and Megatons, world-renowned physicists Richard L. Garwin and Georges Charpak offer an accessible, eminently well-informed primer on two of the most important issues of our time: nuclear weapons and nuclear power. They begin by explaining clearly and concisely how nuclear fission and fusion work in both warheads and reactors, and how they can impact human health. Making a strong and eloquent argument in favor of arms control, Garwin and Charpak outline specific strategies for achieving this goal worldwide. But they also demonstrate how nuclear power can provide an assured, economically feasible, and environmentally responsible source of energy—in a way that avoids the hazards of weapons proliferation. Numerous figures enliven the text, including cartoons by Sempé.
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Georges Charpak was born on August 1, 1924, in Dabrovica, Poland. He was the son of Maurice and Anna (Szapiro) Charpak.
Charpak attended Ecole des Mines de Paris and finished it with Bachelor of Science degree in 1948. After that he attended and finished College of France and get Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1954.
Georges got several honorary degrees from universities, including University of Geneva in 1977, University of Thessalonica, Greece in 1993, Vrije University, Brussels, Belgium in 1994, University of Coimbra, Portugal in 1994 and University of Ottawa, Canada in 1995.
During his life Charpak worked as a physicist. In the organisation named "Centre Nation de la Recherche Scientifique" he held the post of a professor from 1948 to 1959.
Georges was a professor at "Centre Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire" in Geneva that same year. He had been working as a professor of "Ecole Superieure de Physique et Chimie de la Ville de Paris" since 1984.
Georges was the founder of the SOS committee at CERN. This association worked diligently on the part of Soviet dissidents, such as Andrei Sakharov, Yuri Orlov, and Anatoly Sharansky, when they were deprived of their civil rights under the former Soviet Union.
In awarding the Nobel Prize to Charpak, the Swedish Academy of Sciences traced the history of the development of detector devices in physics. The cloud chamber and the bubble chamber were two earlier inventions that had received recognition from the academy. He won this prize in 1992.
In addition he won Croix de Guerre (military cross) in 1939-40, Ricard Prize from European Physics Society in 1980, Commissariat prize of Atomic Energy from French Academy of Science in 1984 and High Energy and Particle Physics Prize in 1989.
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Charpak was a foreign associate member of NAS , member of French Academy Sciences, honorary member of Austrian Academy Sciences, foreign member of Russian Academy Sciences and correspondent member of Lisboa Academy Sciences.
Charpak married Dominique Vidal in 1953, they had two sons and one daughter: Yves, Nathalie and Serge.
