Died 2017-03-07.
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Hans Georg Dehmelt
Hans Georg Dehmelt was a German and American physicist, who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989, for co-developing the ion trap technique with Wolfgang Paul, for which they shared one-half of the prize. Their technique was used for high precision measurement of the electron magnetic moment.
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Born 9 September 1922 · Died 7 March 2017 · Q70532
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1995· 1 entry
Won National Medal of Science (1995).
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1989· 4 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for the development of the ion trap technique.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1989).
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For co-developing the ion trap technique (Penning trap) with Wolfgang Paul, for which they shared one-half of the prize (the other half of the Prize in that year was awarded to Norman Foster Ramsey)
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Dehmelt married Diana Dundore, a physician
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1985· 1 entry
Awarded Rumford Prize (1985).
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1979· 1 entry
Dehmelt led a team that took the first photo of a single atom
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1976· 1 entry
Which he then used to measure precise magnetic moments of the electron and positron with R
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1973· 1 entry
With David Wineland, who continued work on trapped ions at NIST
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1970· 1 entry
Awarded Davisson–Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics (1970).
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1955· 2 entries
Built his first electron impact tube in George Volkoff's laboratory at the University of British Columbia and experimented on paramagnetic resonances in polarized atoms and free electrons
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An associate professor in 1958, and a full professor in 1961
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1948· 1 entry
And received his PhD in 1950, both from the University of Göttingen
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1946· 1 entry
Dehmelt returned to his study of physics at the University of Göttingen, where he supported himself by repairing and bartering old, pre-war radio sets
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1940· 1 entry
Volunteered for service in the German Army, which ordered him to attend the University of Breslau to study physics in 1943
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1922· 1 entry
Born 1922-09-09.
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