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Walther Wilhelm Georg Bothe ( German pronunciation: [ˈvaltɐ ˈboːtə] ⓘ; 8 January 1891 – 8 February 1957) [2] was a German nuclear physicist known for the development of coincidence methods to study particle physics . He 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.
Biographical. Walther Bothe was born on January 8, 1891, at Oranienburg, near Berlin. From 1908 until 1912 he studied physics at the University of Berlin, where he was a pupil of Max Planck, obtaining his doctorate just before the outbreak of the 1914-1918 war.
Walther Bothe was both a strong theoretician and one of the most accomplished experimental physicists of the first half of the 20th century. He had an astonishing gift of concentration, which enabled him to work at great speed.
Walther Bothe (born Jan. 8, 1891, Oranienburg, Ger.—died Feb. 8, 1957, Heidelberg, W.Ger.) was a German physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1954 with Max Born for his invention of a new method of detecting subatomic particles and for other resulting discoveries.
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Jun 8, 2018 · The most outstanding contributions of the German physicist Walther Bothe (1891-1957) were the invention of the coincidence method for the study of individual atomic and nuclear processes and the discovery of a nuclear radiation later identified as neutron emission.
Walther Bothe. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1954. Born: 8 January 1891, Oranienburg, Germany. Died: 8 February 1957, Heidelberg, West Germany (now Germany) Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany; Max-Planck-Institut für medizinische Forschung, Heidelberg, Germany.
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Walther Bothe 1891 - 1957. occupation: Physicist Nationality: German born in: Oranienburg Professor at Heidelberg University; 1954 - awarded Nobel prize jointly with ...
