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Wolfgang Paul was a German physicist who co-developed the ion trap and won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989. He also worked on isotope separation, molecular beam lenses, electron synchrotrons, neutron storage rings and the Göttingen Manifesto.
Aug 6, 2024 · Wolfgang Paul (born Aug. 10, 1913, Lorenzkirch, Ger.—died Dec. 6/7, 1993, Bonn) was a German physicist who shared one-half of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1989 with the German-born American physicist Hans G. Dehmelt.
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Dec 7, 1993 · Wolfgang Paul was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for developing the ion trap technique to study the properties and spectrums of atoms. Learn more about his life, work and prize motivation on this web page.
Wolfgang Paul was a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize for his work on molecular beam physics and ion traps. He also contributed to electron scattering, mass spectrometry, neutron physics and CERN.
Aug 10, 2022 · On August 10, 1913, German physicist Wolfgang Paul was born. Paul co-developed the non-magnetic quadrupole mass filter which laid the foundation for what we now call an ion trap.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1989 was divided, one half awarded to Norman F. Ramsey "for the invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in the hydrogen maser and other atomic clocks", the other half jointly to Hans G. Dehmelt and Wolfgang Paul "for the development of the ion trap technique"
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Aug 10, 2017 · Wolfgang Paul was a German physicist who developed the Paul trap, a device for confining charged particles. He also contributed to mass spectrometry, isotope separation, electron accelerators, and neutron physics.