Georges Charpak

Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1992

Electronic Imaging of Ionizing Radiation with Limited Avalanches in Gases

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From Nobel Lectures, Physics 1991-1995, Editor Gösta Ekspong, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1997

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