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