by Georges Charpak, Dominique Saudinos · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253135722
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«La vie à fil tendu» is the biographical essay by Georges Charpak and Dominique Saudinos, published by LGF in paperback (213 pages, in French).
A two-voice work on the physicist Georges Charpak: Dominique Saudinos recreates his childhood in Ukraine, his arrival in France in the 1930s, his participation in the Resistance and his deportation; then Charpak himself narrates his scientific career, his work on particle detectors and the recognition with the Nobel Prize in Physics.
The book was published on 1 September 1994; this Le Livre de Poche edition reproduces the complete text.
For readers interested in biographies of scientists, twentieth-century European history and popular science in physics.
Hersz Georges Charpak was a Polish-born French physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992 for his invention of the multiwire proportional chamber.
