Timeline of particle physics technology

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Timeline of particle physics technology

* 1896 - Charles Wilson discovers that energetic particles produce droplet tracks in supersaturated gases.
* 1897-1901 - Discovery of the Townsend discharge by John Sealy Townsend.
* 1908 - Hans Geiger and Ernest Rutherford use the Townsend discharge principle to detect alpha particles.
* 1911 - Charles Wilson finishes a sophisticated cloud chamber.[1]
* 1928 - Hans Geiger and Walther Muller invent the Geiger Muller tube, which is based upon the gas ionisation principle used by Geiger in 1908, but is a practical device that can also detect beta and gamma radiation. This is implicitly also the invention of the Geiger Muller counter.
* 1934 - Ernest Lawrence and Stan Livingston invent the cyclotron.
* 1945 - Edwin McMillan devises a synchrotron.[2]
* 1952 - Donald Glaser develops the bubble chamber.[3]
* 1968 - Georges Charpak and Roger Bouclier build the first multiwire proportional mode particle detection chamber.[4]

## References

1. ↑ Mitton, Simon (2011-02-24). Fred Hoyle: A Life in Science. Cambridge University Press. p. 45. ISBN 978-1-139-49595-0. https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Fred_Hoyle/MWKQhXo2eaIC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=1911+-+Charles+Wilson+finishes+a+sophisticated+cloud+chamber.&pg=PA45&printsec=frontcover. Retrieved 2026-02-10.
2. ↑ "The synchrotron a proposed high energy accelerator. Pre-publication typescript". 2025-06-12. https://www.vialibri.net/years/books/789652836/1945-mcmillan-edwin-mattison-the-synchrotron-a-proposed-high-energy.
3. ↑ "Nobel Prize in Physics 1960". 1926-09-21. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1960/glaser/facts/.
4. ↑ "Georges Charpak". 2010-11-30. https://cerncourier.com/a/georges-charpak-a-true-man-of-science/.

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