Born August 1 1924 in Dabrovica, Poland. Naturalized French citizen in 1946.

Studies
Lycée Saint Louis in Paris
Lycée de Montpellier
1945-1947 Ecole des Mines (Mining school) in Paris

Degrees
1948 Bachelor of Science. Mining engineer.
1954 Ph. D. Physics. Experimental research in Nuclear Physics at College de France

Positions
1948-1959 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 1959-1991 Centre Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN)

Research
1960 Participated in the first exact measurement of the magnetic momentum of the muon
1961-1967 Development of various types of nonphotographic scintillation chambers
1962-1967 Nuclear structure studied by reactions (p+2p)
1968 Introduction of proportional multiwire chambers
1974 Introduction of spherical drift chambers for studies of proteins by X-ray diffraction (Orsay)
1979-1989 Introduction of multistage avalanche chambers and application of photon counters for the imaging ionizing radiations
1985-1991 Participated in experiments at Fermilab (USA). Introduction of chambers based on luminescent avalanches. Development of instrumentation for biological research using b-ray imaging (Centre Médical Universitaire de Genève.