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Wire chamber

proportional counter that detects charged particles and photons
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Wire chamber

Summary

Wire chamber ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (73 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Wire chamber is credited with the discovery of Georges Charpak[2].
  • Wire chamber's subclass of is recorded as particle detector[3].
  • Wire chamber's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/040th1[4].
  • Wire chamber's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 112378827[5].
  • Wire chamber's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C112378827[6].
  • Wire chamber's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2992829418[7].

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Works and Contributions

Wire chamber is credited with the discovery of Georges Charpak[2].

Why It Matters

Wire chamber ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (73 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[8] It is known by 23 alternative names across languages and contexts.[9]

Related Entities

Georges Charpak

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [9] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_wire-chamber_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Wire chamber}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/wire-chamber}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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