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....................................................................................//__George Charpak.....................................................................................__//

By: Ella Cox

** About Me: **

**Name:** Georges Charpak

**Birth year:** 1924

**Death Year:** 2010

** Father and Mothers Occupation: ** before emigrating to France the only work my father could find was breaking rocks for road construction

** Family ** Only Child (from what i can tell)

~Where are you from

**Country of birth:** Poland moved to Paris age 7. Became French Citizen

**Living conditions:** Jewish family during world war 2. Natzi concentration camp 1944-1945.

** Political conditions: ** I grew up during the time of the holicaust. This was very dangerous because my family was jewish but out of fear of being found out, i refused to wear the gold star all jews were expected to wear. i passed as a non jew but eventually was captured and sent to a consentration camp for 1-2 years.

**What is the world like, when you live:** The world i lived in was fairly dangerous. World War 2 was going on when i was growing up which was a danger to my family since we were jewish and hitler and the natzi's were coming after us.

**Wars:** World War II


 * World Economy **


 * World of Science **

** Interesting facts about me ** at age 15, i had already become an anti-fascist militant. While in prison during the time of natzi invasions i was assigned to work as a ditch digger **,** and ever since i have had held a distaste towards gardening.

** Education: ** bachelor's degree in mining engineering from Ecoles des Mines doctorate from college de paris in 1955

** What was your area of work or research? ** subatomic particles

** Who were your colleagues? ** Worked in the laboratory of Frederic Joliot-Curie

** What awards did you receive? ** 1992 Nobel Prize for Physics

__** My Friends and enemies: **__

** What colleagues do you work well with? ** I worked for a long time with Frederic Joliot-Curie

** Are you working together on an area of Physics? ** after recieving my doctorate i went to work in the lab of Frederic Joliot-Curie. Later i became a Joliot-Curie professor at the School of Advanced Studies in Physics and Chemistry, Paris.

** Explain your relationship **

** What Physicists are you in conflict with? What is the conflict? ** None of such conflict was ever found

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~Works Cited -
 * GENERAL FEATURES:  **

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/107627/Georges-Charpak http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/03/science/03charpak.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/science-obituaries/8100545/Georges-Charpak.html

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