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Hans Geiger

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Personal details and public facts.

Profession
Engineer
Died
Sep 24, 1945
Zodiac
Libra
Born in
PotsdamGermany
About
Remembered for his development of a radiation measuring device known as the Geiger counter and for his role in the famous Geiger–Marsden experiment (which discovered the existence of the nuclei of atoms), he was the 1929 recipient of the prestigious Hughes Medal.
Family
He was born in Potsdam, Germany, to University of Erlangen professor Wilhelm Geiger.

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