The reports were declassified and returned to Germany
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Walther Bothe
Walther Wilhelm Georg Bothe 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."
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Born 8 January 1891 · Died 8 February 1957 · Q76474
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1957· 2 entries
Died 1957-02-08.
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“The Laboratory for Radioactivity consisted of only two rooms at the time; at a later date, when tests of radioactive substances became more extensive, it expanded into four rooms.”
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1954· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for the coincidence method and his discoveries made therewith.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1954).
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1953· 1 entry
Won Max Planck Medal (1953).
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1949· 1 entry
Its control was returned to Bothe
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1946· 1 entry
In addition to his directorship of the Physics Institute at the KWImf, Bothe was reinstated as a professor at Heidelberg University
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1940· 1 entry
The Atlas of Typical Cloud Chamber Images, which became a standard reference for identifying scattered particles
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1939· 1 entry
Under the supervision of the Army Ordnance Office
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1938· 1 entry
Bothe and Gentner published on the energy dependence of the nuclear photo-effect
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1934· 1 entry
Lenard had managed to get Bothe relieved of his directorship of the Physical and Radiological Institute, whereupon Bothe was able to become the Director of the Institute for Physics of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für med
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1932· 3 entries
Became Director of the Physical and Radiological Institute at Heidelberg University; he was driven out of this position by elements of the Deutsche Physik movement
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James Chadwick identified this radiation as the neutron
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Bothe succeeded Philipp Lenard as Director of the Physical and Radiological Institute at Heidelberg University
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1930· 2 entries
Bothe became an ordentlicher Professor (ordinary professor) and Director of the Physics Department at the University of Giessen
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Bothe became Full Professor and Director of the Physics Department at the University of Giessen
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1929· 1 entry
In collaboration with Werner Kolhörster and Bruno Rossi (who were guests in Bothe's laboratory at the PTR), Bothe began the study of cosmic rays
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1928· 1 entry
Bothe and Fränz correlated reaction products of nuclear interactions to nuclear energy levels
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1927· 1 entry
Bothe began the study of the transmutation of light elements through bombardment with alpha particles
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1925· 1 entry
While still at the PTR, Bothe became a Privatdozent (unsalaried lecturer) at the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin, and, in 1929, he became an ausserordentlicher Professor (extraordinary professor) there
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1924· 1 entry
Bothe published on his coincidence method
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1913· 2 entries
Bothe joined the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt (PTR – now the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt), where he stayed until 1930
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Studied at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (1908–1913).
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1891· 1 entry
Born 1891-01-08.
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