Walther Bothe
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Walther Bothe was a German scientist who worked across physics, mathematics, and chemistry during the early-to-mid 20th century. His work contributed to the development of modern physics during a transformative period in the field.
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- 1891-01-08
- Died
- 1957-02-08
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Walther Wilhelm Georg Bothe ( German: [ˈvaltɐ ˈboːtə] ; 8 January 1891 – 8 February 1957) was a German experimental physicist who shared the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics with Max Born "for the coincidence method and his discoveries made therewith."
Bothe served in the military during World War I from 1914, and he was a prisoner of war of the Russians, returning to Germany in 1920. Upon his return to the laboratory, he developed and applied coincidence circuits to the study of nuclear reactions, such as the Compton effect, cosmic rays, and the wave–particle duality of radiation.
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