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Hans Geiger
1945 Sep, 24

Hans Geiger

Hans Geiger, German physicist and academic, co-invented the Geiger counter (b. 1882)
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 was the brother of meteorologist and climatologist Rudolf Geiger.

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