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Hans Geiger
Johannes "Hans" Wilhelm Geiger 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 interac…
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science · German physicist (1882–1945) · physicist · inventor · university teacher · nuclear physicist · laboratory director · scientist · also Hans Geiger, H. Geiger, Hans Gengar, Johannes Wilhelm Geiger, Geiger
Born 30 September 1882 · Died 24 September 1945 · Q57189
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2025· 1 entry
2023· 2 entries
Saarbrücker Zeitung: Kirkel: Geliebt und geschätzt – Hans Geiger ist tot
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Mittelbayerische: Revierförster Hans Geiger war auf der Suche nach klimastabilen Bäumen
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2012· 1 entry
Published “Are we ready for autonomous driving? The KITTI vision benchmark suite” in 2012 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition — cited 11,949 times.
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2009· 2 entries
SRF: Hans Geiger: Zukunft des Finanzplatzes Schweiz
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Ärzteblatt: Hans Geiger: Verfechter eines Heilberufeverbundes
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1945· 1 entry
Died 1945-09-24.
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1942· 1 entry
After its members came to believe that nuclear weapons would not play a significant role in ending the war
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1939· 1 entry
Following the discovery of nuclear fission, Geiger became a member of the Uranium Club, the German investigation of nuclear weapons during World War II
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1937· 1 entry
Won Dennis Gabor Medal and Prize (1937).
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1936· 1 entry
Took a position at Technische Hochschule Berlin (now Technische Universität Berlin), where he continued to research cosmic rays, nuclear fission, and artificial radiation until his death in 1945
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1929· 2 entries
Won Hughes Medal presented by Royal Society (1929).
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Geiger was appointed Professor of Physics and Director of Research at the University of Tübingen, where he made his first observations of a cosmic ray shower
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1928· 1 entry
Geiger and his student, Walther Müller, created the Geiger–Müller tube
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1925· 1 entry
Geiger began a teaching position at Kiel University
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1924· 1 entry
Geiger and Bothe carried out the Bothe–Geiger coincidence experiment that confirmed the Compton effect, which helped earn Arthur Compton the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics
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1912· 1 entry
Geiger was named head of radiation research at the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt (now the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt) in Charlottenburg, where he worked with James Chadwick and Walther Bothe (winners o
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1911· 1 entry
Geiger and John Mitchell Nuttall discovered the Geiger–Nuttall law (or rule) and performed experiments that led to Rutherford's atomic model
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1907· 1 entry
After Schuster's retirement, Geiger began to work with his successor, Ernest Rutherford, and in 1908, along with Ernest Marsden, conducted the famous Geiger–Marsden experiment (also known as the "gold foil experiment")
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1902· 1 entry
Geiger started studying physics and mathematics at the University of Erlangen, receiving his Ph
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1882· 1 entry
Born 1882-09-30.
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