Timeline of
particle physics technology
* 1896 -
Charles Wilson discovers that energetic particles produce droplet tracks in
supersaturated
In physical chemistry, supersaturation occurs with a solution when the concentration of a solute exceeds the concentration specified by the value of solubility at equilibrium. Most commonly the term is applied to a solution of a solid in a liqu ...
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
A Geiger counter (also known as a Geiger–Müller counter) is an electronic instrument used for detecting and measuring ionizing radiation. It is widely used in applications such as radiation dosimetry, radiological protection, experimental p ...
.
* 1934 -
Ernest Lawrence
Ernest Orlando Lawrence (August 8, 1901 – August 27, 1958) was an American nuclear physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939 for his invention of the cyclotron. He is known for his work on uranium-isotope separation f ...
and
Stan Livingston invent the
cyclotron
* 1945 -
Edwin McMillan devises a
synchrotron
A synchrotron is a particular type of cyclic particle accelerator, descended from the cyclotron, in which the accelerating particle beam travels around a fixed closed-loop path. The magnetic field which bends the particle beam into its closed p ...
* 1952 -
Donald Glaser
Donald Arthur Glaser (September 21, 1926 – February 28, 2013) was an Americans, American physicist, neurobiologist, and the winner of the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of the bubble chamber used in subatomic particle physic ...
develops the
bubble chamber
* 1968 -
Georges Charpak and
Roger Bouclier build the first multiwire proportional mode particle detection chamber
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