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Issue Europhysics News
Volume 33, Number 1, January-February 2002
Page(s) 14 - 17
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epn:2002104

Europhysics News 33, 14-17 (2002)
DOI: 10.1051/epn:2002104

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Georges Charpak and Richard L. Garwin

CERN Laboratoire 1,1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland

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