Hans Geiger
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Hans Geiger was a German physicist who lived from 1882 to 1945 and is best known for developing the Geiger counter, a device that detects and measures radiation. His work on radiation detection became fundamental to nuclear physics research and continues to be widely used today in scientific and safety applications.
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- 1882
- Died
- 1945-09-24
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- 9
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- Strahlungs-, Temperatur- und Potentialmessungen in Entladungsröhren bei starken Strömen
- Röntgenstrahlund ausschliesslich Röntgenoptik
- Handbuch der physik
- Die kosmische Ultrastrahlung als Forschungsproblem
- Elektronen, Atome, Ionen
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Johannes "Hans" Wilhelm Geiger (30 September 1882 – 24 September 1945) was a German experimental physicist. He is known as the inventor of the Geiger counter, a device used to detect ionizing radiation, and for carrying out the Rutherford scattering experiments, which led to the discovery of the atomic nucleus. He also performed the Bothe–Geiger coincidence experiment, which confirmed the conservation of energy in light-particle interactions.
He was the brother of meteorologist and climatologist Rudolf Geiger.
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1882 births1945 deaths20th-century German inventors20th-century German physicistsAcademic staff of Technische Universität BerlinAcademic staff of the University of KielGerman nuclear physicistsPeople associated with the University of ManchesterPeople from Neustadt an der WeinstraßePeople from the Palatinate (region)University of Erlangen–Nuremberg alumni