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.
• 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.
• 1952 - Donald Glaser develops the bubble chamber.
• 1968 - Georges Charpak and Roger Bouclier build the first multiwire proportional mode particle detection chamber.