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Johannes Wilhelm "Hans" Geiger (/ ˈ ɡ aɪ ɡ ər /; German: [ˈɡaɪɡɐ]; 30 September 1882 – 24 September 1945) was a German physicist. He is best known as the co-inventor of the detector component of the Geiger counter and for the Geiger–Marsden experiment which discovered the atomic nucleus.
cosmic ray. radiation. radioactivity. Hans Geiger (born September 30, 1882, Neustadt an der Haardt, Germany—died September 24, 1945, Potsdam) was a German physicist who introduced the first successful detector (the Geiger counter) of individual alpha particles and other ionizing radiations.
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Hans Geiger (1882-1945) was director of the Physics Institute of Königlich Technische Hochschule zu Berlin. Together with his colleague Walter Müller, he invented the Geiger-Müller counter used to measure radioactive particles and determine their energy level.
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Hans Geiger was a German nuclear physicist (a person who studies the inner core of the atom) best known for his invention of the Geiger counter, a device used for detecting and counting atomic particles, and for his work in nuclear physics with Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937).
Oct 11, 2019 · The radioactivity counter of Hans Geiger (30 September 1882 – 24 September 1945), and its characteristic sound, starred in some of the most disturbing scenes of the recent television series Chernobyl, which recounts the disaster of the ill-fated Soviet nuclear power plant.
Consumer Devices. Nuclear physicist Hans Geiger, whose surname is known all over the world for his invention of the radioactivity measuring device known as the Geiger counter, was born Johannes Wilhelm Geiger in Neustadt-an-der-Haardt, Germany on September 30, 1882.
The German physicist Hans Wilhelm Geiger is best known as the inventor of the Geiger counter to measure radiation. In 1908, Geiger introduced the first successful detector of individual alpha particles. Later versions of this counter were able to count beta particles and other ionizing radiation.
