Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Timeline of particle physics technology 1896 - Charles Wilson discovers that energetic particles produce droplet tracks in supersaturated gases 1908 - Hans Geiger and Ernest Rutherford invent the Geiger counter 1911 - Charles Wilson finishes a sophisticated cloud chamber 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 This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.