Hans Geiger
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 79 years ago |
Date of birth | September 30,1882 |
Zodiac sign | Libra |
Born | Neustadt |
Germany | |
Date of died | September 24,1945 |
Died | Potsdam |
Germany | |
Nationality | German |
Siblings | Rudolf Geiger |
Job | Physicist |
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Education | University of Erlangen-Nuremberg |
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich | |
Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen | |
Known for | Geiger counter; Geiger–Marsden experiment; Geiger–Müller tube; Geiger–Nuttall law; Atomic nucleus |
Parents | Wilhelm Geiger |
Marie Plochmann | |
Awards | Hughes Medal |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 532098 |
Hans Geiger Life story
Johannes Wilhelm "Hans" Geiger was a German physicist. He is best known as the co-inventor of the detector component of the Geiger counter and for the Geiger–Marsden experiment which discovered the atomic nucleus. He was the brother of meteorologist and climatologist Rudolf Geiger.