Hans Geiger

Title: Hans Geiger
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Hans Geiger

HANS GEIGER Hans Geiger, whose full name was Johannes Wilhelm Geiger, was born in Neustadt-an-der-Haardt, Germany, on September 30, 1882. He died in Berlin on September 24, 1945. He was the inventor of the Geiger counter Geiger got his the Ph.D. at the University of Erlanger in 1906. Geiger worked in Manchester England with Ernest Rutherford from 1906 to 1912. In 1922 they came up with the first version of the Geiger counter that was made to count the number of alpha …showed first 75 words of 393 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 393 total…a professional appointments, he and Walther Müller improved the sensitivity, performance, and durability of the particle counter which Geiger made before. Named the Geiger- Müller counter (picture shown on the left) in the present-day, the improved device detects not only alpha particles but other types of ionizing radiation such as beta particles (electrons) and ionizing electromagnetic photon. Geiger also participated in Germany's abortive attempt to develop an atomic bomb during World War II.

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