Geiger biography
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Hans Geiger
German physicist (1882–1945)
For the German footballer, see Hans Geiger (footballer). For the Swiss surrealist artist, see H. R. Giger.
Johannes Wilhelm "Hans" Geiger (; 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. He also carried the Bothe–Geiger coincidence experiment that confirmed the conservation of energy in light-particle interactions.
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He was the brother of meteorologist and climatologistRudolf Geiger.
Biography
Geiger was born at Neustadt an der Haardt, Germany. He was one of five children born to the IndologistWilhelm Ludwig Geiger, who was a professor at the University of Erlangen.
In 1902, Geiger started studying physics and mathematics at the University of Erlangen and was awarded a doctorate in 1906.[1] His thesis was on electr