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Hans Geiger

1882 - 1945

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Johannes Wilhelm Geiger (US: GYE-ger, UK: ; German: [ˈɡaɪɡɐ] ; 30 September 1882 – 24 September 1945) was a German nuclear physicist. He is known as the inventor of the Geiger counter, a device used to detect ionizing radiation, and for carrying out the Rutherford scattering experiments, which led to the discovery of the atomic nucleus. He also performed the Bothe–Geiger coincidence experiment, which confirmed the conservation of energy in light-particle interactions. He was the brother of meteorologist and climatologist Rudolf Geiger. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hans Geiger is the 186th most popular physicist (down from 153rd in 2019), the 518th most popular biography from Germany (down from 516th in 2019) and the 31st most popular German Physicist.

Hans Geiger is most famous for his invention of the Geiger-Müller tube, which detects ionizing radiation.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Hans Geiger ranks 186 out of 851. Before him are Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Burton Richter, Isamu Akasaki, Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, and Jerome Isaac Friedman. After him are Georg von Békésy, Douglas Osheroff, George Smoot, Ilya Frank, Isidor Isaac Rabi, and Auguste Piccard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Hans Geiger ranks 32. Before him are Getúlio Vargas, Emmerich Kálmán, Umberto Boccioni, Princess Marie Bonaparte, Rodolfo Graziani, and Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark. After him are Bela Lugosi, William Halsey Jr., Arthur Eddington, Princess Margaret of Connaught, René Coty, and Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia. Among people deceased in 1945, Hans Geiger ranks 45. Before him are Ernst Busch, Friedrich Fromm, Roland Freisler, Josef Kramer, Wied, Prince of Albania, and Robert Ley. After him are Giovanni Agnelli, Odilo Globočnik, Karl Hanke, Yun Chi-ho, Robert Ritter von Greim, and Edgar Cayce.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans Geiger ranks 518 out of 7,253. Before him are Hans Luther (1879), Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804), Jost Gippert (1956), Jean Paul (1763), Robert Ley (1890), and Wilhelm Schickard (1592). After him are F. W. Murnau (1888), Maria Anna of Bavaria (1574), Bernhard von Bülow (1849), Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria (1801), Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (1793), and Caroline of Baden (1776).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Hans Geiger ranks 31. Before him are Gerd Binnig (1947), Ernst Abbe (1840), Polykarp Kusch (1911), Julius von Mayer (1814), Herbert Kroemer (1928), and Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742). After him are Horst Ludwig Störmer (1949), Max Delbrück (1906), Karl Schwarzschild (1873), Theodor W. Hänsch (1941), Wolfgang Paul (1913), and Klaus Fuchs (1911).

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