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Hans Georg Dehmelt

1922 - 2017

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Hans Georg Dehmelt (German pronunciation: [ˈhans ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈdeːml̩t] ; 9 September 1922 – 7 March 2017) was a German and American physicist, who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989, for co-developing the ion trap technique (Penning trap) with Wolfgang Paul, for which they shared one-half of the prize (the other half of the Prize in that year was awarded to Norman Foster Ramsey). Their technique was used for high precision measurement of the electron magnetic moment. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hans Georg Dehmelt is the 159th most popular physicist (up from 171st in 2019), the 405th most popular biography from Germany (up from 573rd in 2019) and the 24th most popular German Physicist.

Hans Geiger is most famous for his work with Ernest Rutherford in the discovery of the atomic nucleus.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Hans Georg Dehmelt ranks 159 out of 851. Before him are Laura Bassi, John Kendrew, Javier Solana, Jean-Baptiste Biot, Frits Zernike, and Felix Bloch. After him are Johann Jakob Balmer, Joseph Henry, Hippolyte Fizeau, Augustin-Jean Fresnel, Georges Charpak, and Gerd Binnig.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Hans Georg Dehmelt ranks 21. Before him are Pierre Cardin, Ava Gardner, Erich Hartmann, Gérard Philipe, Jack Kerouac, and Erving Goffman. After him are Philip Larkin, Charles M. Schulz, Christiaan Barnard, Imre Lakatos, Alain Resnais, and Doris Day. Among people deceased in 2017, Hans Georg Dehmelt ranks 21. Before him are Salvatore Riina, Ali Abdullah Saleh, David Rockefeller, Chuck Berry, Nicolaas Bloembergen, and Manuel Noriega. After him are John Hurt, Hugh Hefner, Mireille Darc, Jerry Lewis, Glen Campbell, and George Andrew Olah.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans Georg Dehmelt ranks 405 out of 7,253. Before him are Ilse Koch (1906), Rupert, King of Germany (1352), Max Bruch (1838), Wilhelm Maybach (1846), Einhard (770), and Ernst Thälmann (1886). After him are Chlodio (393), Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486), Maria of Yugoslavia (1900), Hermann Fegelein (1906), Elizabeth Charlotte, Madame Palatine (1652), and Georg von Hertling (1843).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Hans Georg Dehmelt ranks 24. Before him are Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787), Carl Zeiss (1816), James Franck (1882), Arno Allan Penzias (1933), Rudolf Mössbauer (1929), and George Paget Thomson (1892). After him are Gerd Binnig (1947), Ernst Abbe (1840), Polykarp Kusch (1911), Julius von Mayer (1814), Herbert Kroemer (1928), and Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742).

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