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Nathalie Charpak
French and Colombian pediatrician
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Nathalie Charpak (born 1955) is a French and Colombian pediatrician. As the founder and director of the Kangaroo Foundation, and associate researcher of the Pontifical Xavierian University, her research focuses on the care of low-birth weight preterm infants and the application of kangaroo mother care. Charpak's work has earned her, and the Kangaroo Foundation, multiple awards,[1] including the Legion of Honour[2] and the Save the Children Healthcare Innovation Award.[3] Her father is Nobel Laureate Georges Charpak.
Early life and education
Charpak grew up close to the France-Switzerland border where her father worked at CERN, before moving to Paris to complete her university education. She obtained her medical degree at University of Paris-Sud in 1981, before specializing in tropical and nutritional medicine in 1983 at the Pierre and Marie Curie University, then pediatrics at University of Paris-Sud in 1987.[1 Dates August 1, 1924 – September 29, 2010 Authorized Form of Name Charpak, Georges Additional Forms of Names Charpak, G. (Georges) Charpak, Georges, 1924-2010 Georges Charpak was a instrumentation physicist at École Supérieure de Physique et Chimie, Paris, France. He was awarded the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber." August 1, 1924Birth, Dąbrowica (Lublin, Poland). 1946Naturalized French citizen. 1948Obtained BSc degree in Mining, Mines ParisTech (École des Mines de Paris), Paris (France). 1948 – 1959Researcher, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris (France). 1954Obtained PhD in Physics, University of Paris (Université de Paris), Paris (France). 1959 – 1991Researcher, CERN (Centre Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire), Geneva (Switzerland). 1980 – 1985Professor of Physics (1980-1984) and Joliot-Curie Professor of Physics (1984-1985), School of Advanced Studies in Physic Polish-born French physicist Georges Charpak (French:[ʒɔʁʒʃaʁpak]; born Jerzy Charpak; 1 August 1924 – 29 September 2010) was a Polish-born French physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992 for his invention of the multiwire proportional chamber.[1][2][3] Georges Charpak was born on 1 August 1924[4] as Jerzy Charpak to Jewish parents, Anna (Szapiro) and Maurice Charpak, in the village of Dąbrowica in Poland (now Dubrovytsia in Ukraine). Charpak's family moved from Poland to Paris when he was seven years old, beginning his study of mathematics in 1941 at the Lycée Saint-Louis.[5] The actor and film director André Charpak was his younger brother. During World War II Charpak served in the resistance and was imprisoned by Vichy authorities in 1943. In 1944 he was deported to the Naziconcentration camp at Dachau, where he remained until the camp was liberated in 1945. After classes préparatoires studies at Lycée Saint-Louis in Paris and later at Lycée Joffre in Montpell
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