Editing Timeline of particle physics technology

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'''[[Timeline]] of [[particle physics]] [[technology]]'''

* 1896 - [[Charles Wilson (physicist)|Charles Wilson]] discovers that energetic particles produce droplet tracks in [[supersaturation|supersaturated]] gases.
* 1897-1901 - Discovery of the [[Townsend discharge]] by [[John Sealy Townsend]].
* 1908 - [[Hans Geiger]] and [[Ernest Rutherford]] use the [[Townsend discharge]] principle to detect alpha particles. 
* 1911 - Charles Wilson finishes a sophisticated [[cloud chamber]].
* 1928 - [[Hans Geiger]] and [[Walther Muller]] invent the Geiger Muller tube, which is based upon the gas ionisation principle used by Geiger in 1908, but is a practical device that can also detect beta and gamma radiation. This is implicitly also the invention of the [[Geiger Muller counter]]. 
* 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.

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