Hersz Georges Charpak was a Polish-born French physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992 for his invention of the multiwire proportional chamber. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1992, announced October 14, 1992. Georges Charpak, “for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber”. Georges Charpak: born 1924, Dabrovica, Poland. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).