Quo Fuit places 7 dated presences for Georges Charpak across 4 places, from 1924 to 2010.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Hersz Georges Charpak (1 August 1924 – 29 September 2010) was a Polish-born French physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992 for his invention of the multiwire proportional chamber.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Every dot is a place Georges Charpak is documented in, on a dated record. The interactive globe carries the full detail.
Where Georges Charpak was documented, and when
1 August 1924exact date
Second Polish Republicattested“Georges Charpak was born on 1 August 1924 to Jewish parents, Chana (Szapiro) and Maurice Charpak, in the village of Dąbrowica in Poland (now Dubrovytsia in Ukraine).”source: Wikipedia: Georges Charpak
1 August 1924exact date
Ukraineattested“Georges Charpak was born on 1 August 1924 to Jewish parents, Chana (Szapiro) and Maurice Charpak, in the village of Dąbrowica in Poland (now Dubrovytsia in Ukraine).”source: Wikipedia: Georges Charpak
1941year
Parisattested“Charpak's family moved from Poland to Paris when he was seven years old, beginning his study of mathematics in 1941 at the Lycée Saint-Louis.”source: Wikipedia: Georges Charpak
1941year
Second Polish Republicattested“Charpak's family moved from Poland to Paris when he was seven years old, beginning his study of mathematics in 1941 at the Lycée Saint-Louis.”source: Wikipedia: Georges Charpak
1941year
Lycée Saint-Louisattested“Charpak's family moved from Poland to Paris when he was seven years old, beginning his study of mathematics in 1941 at the Lycée Saint-Louis.”source: Wikipedia: Georges Charpak
1980year
Parisattested“In 1980, Georges Charpak became professor-in-residence at École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles in Paris (ESPCI) and held the Joliot-Curie Chair there in 1984.”source: Wikipedia: Georges Charpak
29 September 2010exact date
Parisattested“Charpak died on 29 September 2010, in Paris, at the age of 86.”source: Wikipedia: Georges Charpak
Open Quo Fuit to see these 7 presences on the
globe, filter them by date, and follow the journey year by year.
Other places tied to Georges Charpak in the record
In each of these, a source puts Georges Charpak and the place in the same dated sentence without stating
that Georges Charpak was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason:
a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.
1944 to 1945period
Dachau concentration campmentioned“In 1944 he was deported to the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, where he remained until the camp was liberated in 1945.”source: Wikipedia: Georges Charpak
1945year
Parismentioned“After classes préparatoires studies at Lycée Saint-Louis in Paris and later at Lycée Joffre in Montpellier, he joined in 1945 the Paris-based École des Mines, one of the most prestigious engineering schools in France.”source: Wikipedia: Georges Charpak
1945year
Lycée Saint-Louismentioned“After classes préparatoires studies at Lycée Saint-Louis in Paris and later at Lycée Joffre in Montpellier, he joined in 1945 the Paris-based École des Mines, one of the most prestigious engineering schools in France.”source: Wikipedia: Georges Charpak
1945year
Citadel of Montpelliermentioned“After classes préparatoires studies at Lycée Saint-Louis in Paris and later at Lycée Joffre in Montpellier, he joined in 1945 the Paris-based École des Mines, one of the most prestigious engineering schools in France.”source: Wikipedia: Georges Charpak
1945year
Montpelliermentioned“After classes préparatoires studies at Lycée Saint-Louis in Paris and later at Lycée Joffre in Montpellier, he joined in 1945 the Paris-based École des Mines, one of the most prestigious engineering schools in France.”source: Wikipedia: Georges Charpak
1945year
Francementioned“After classes préparatoires studies at Lycée Saint-Louis in Paris and later at Lycée Joffre in Montpellier, he joined in 1945 the Paris-based École des Mines, one of the most prestigious engineering schools in France.”source: Wikipedia: Georges Charpak
1948 to 1949period
Collège de Francementioned“He graduated in 1948, earning the French degree of Civil Engineer of Mines (Ingénieur Civil des Mines equivalent to a Master's degree) becoming a pupil in the laboratory of Frédéric Joliot-Curie at the Collège de France during 1949, the…”source: Wikipedia: Georges Charpak
1948 to 1949period
Collmentioned“He graduated in 1948, earning the French degree of Civil Engineer of Mines (Ingénieur Civil des Mines equivalent to a Master's degree) becoming a pupil in the laboratory of Frédéric Joliot-Curie at the Collège de France during 1949, the…”source: Wikipedia: Georges Charpak
1954year
Collège de Francementioned“He received his PhD in 1954 in nuclear physics at the Collège de France, receiving the qualification after having written a thesis on the subject of very-low-energy radiation due to disintegration of nuclei (Charpak & Suzor).”source: Wikipedia: Georges Charpak
1954year
Collmentioned“He received his PhD in 1954 in nuclear physics at the Collège de France, receiving the qualification after having written a thesis on the subject of very-low-energy radiation due to disintegration of nuclei (Charpak & Suzor).”source: Wikipedia: Georges Charpak
1959year
Genevamentioned“In 1959, Charpak joined the staff of CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Geneva, where he invented and developed the multiwire proportional chamber.”source: Wikipedia: Georges Charpak
20 May 1985exact date
French Academymentioned“He was elected to the French Academy of Sciences on 20 May 1985.”source: Wikipedia: Georges Charpak
Two people documented in the same place in the same year is a correlation, not a meeting.
Quo Fuit will never say they met without a source that says so.
How to read this page
Every line above is a dated fact taken from a source, with the sentence it came from and a link
back to it. Nothing is inferred, and a gap in the record is not evidence that someone was elsewhere.
A tag says how the fact is carried by its source: documented a structured,
explicitly dated record, attested a sentence that states the person was there,
mentioned a sentence that ties the person to the place without stating presence.
Sentences quoted from Wikipedia are available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Public domain books come from
Project Gutenberg. Quo Fuit claims no rights over these sources.
See Georges Charpak on a 3D globe, filter the record by date, and cross this life with another to find
where the two overlap.
