Hans Geiger
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 80 years ago |
| Date of birth | September 30,1882 |
| Zodiac sign | Libra |
| Born | Neustadt |
| Germany | |
| Date of died | September 24,1945 |
| Died | Potsdam |
| Germany | |
| Nationality | German |
| Siblings | Rudolf Geiger |
| Job | Physicist |
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| Education | University of Erlangen-Nuremberg |
| Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich | |
| Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen | |
| Known for | Geiger counter; Geiger–Marsden experiment; Geiger–Müller tube; Geiger–Nuttall law; Atomic nucleus |
| Parents | Wilhelm Geiger |
| Marie Plochmann | |
| Awards | Hughes Medal |
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| ID | 532098 |
Hans Geiger Life story
Johannes Wilhelm "Hans" Geiger 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.