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Walther Bothe

1891 - 1957

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Walther Wilhelm Georg Bothe (German: [ˈvaltɐ ˈboːtə] ; 8 January 1891 – 8 February 1957) was a German physicist who shared the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics with Max Born "for the coincidence method and his discoveries made therewith". He served in the military during World War I from 1914, and he was a prisoner of war of the Russians, returning to Germany in 1920. Upon his return to the laboratory, he developed and applied coincidence circuits to the study of nuclear reactions, such as the Compton effect, cosmic rays, and the wave–particle duality of radiation. In 1930, he became a full professor and director of the physics department at the University of Giessen. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Walther Bothe is the 115th most popular physicist (up from 134th in 2019), the 288th most popular biography from Germany (up from 440th in 2019) and the 16th most popular German Physicist.

Walther Bothe was a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954 for his work on nuclear reactions.

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Among physicists, Walther Bothe ranks 115 out of 851. Before him are Clinton Davisson, Wilhelm Eduard Weber, Peter Higgs, Ernest Lawrence, Jagadish Chandra Bose, and Heinrich Rohrer. After him are Peter Grünberg, Willis Lamb, Ernst Ruska, Arnold Sommerfeld, François Arago, and Albert Fert.

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Among people born in 1891, Walther Bothe ranks 14. Before him are Nelly Sachs, James Chadwick, Walter Model, Edith Stein, Pär Lagerkvist, and John Howard Northrop. After him are Henry Miller, Rudolf Carnap, Helmuth Weidling, Otto Dix, Rafael Trujillo, and Fritz Todt. Among people deceased in 1957, Walther Bothe ranks 12. Before him are Miklós Horthy, Christian Dior, Humphrey Bogart, Johannes Stark, Nikos Kazantzakis, and Constantin Brâncuși. After him are Gerty Cori, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Arturo Toscanini, Wilhelm Reich, Gichin Funakoshi, and Oliver Hardy.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Walther Bothe ranks 288 out of 7,253. Before him are Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883), Karl Weierstrass (1815), Ferdinand Tönnies (1855), Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1629), Joachim Gauck (1940), and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880). After him are Sepp Dietrich (1892), Caroline Herschel (1750), Albrecht Kossel (1853), Albert, Duke of Prussia (1490), John of Austria (1547), and Eduard Bernstein (1850).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Walther Bothe ranks 16. Before him are Johannes Stark (1874), Gustav Ludwig Hertz (1887), Georg Bednorz (1950), Otto von Guericke (1602), J. Hans D. Jensen (1907), and Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804). After him are Ernst Ruska (1906), Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787), Carl Zeiss (1816), James Franck (1882), Arno Allan Penzias (1933), and Rudolf Mössbauer (1929).

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