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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

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