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Hans Geiger

1882 - 1945

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Johannes Wilhelm "Hans" Geiger (; German: [ˈɡaɪɡɐ]; 30 September 1882 – 24 September 1945) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Geiger has received more than 417,596 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Hans Geiger is the 152nd most popular physicist (down from 132nd in 2019), the 579th most popular biography from Germany (down from 490th in 2019) and the 27th 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 152 out of 717. Before him are Hans Bethe, William Shockley, Johann Jakob Balmer, Ben Roy Mottelson, Martin Lewis Perl, and Rudolf Mössbauer. After him are Peter Grünberg, Val Logsdon Fitch, Nicolaas Bloembergen, Hugh Everett III, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, and Michio Kaku.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Hans Geiger ranks 36. Before him are Percy Williams Bridgman, Jacques Maritain, A. A. Milne, Princess Margaret of Connaught, Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia, and Princess Marie Bonaparte. After him are Arthur Eddington, Bela Lugosi, Nicolai Hartmann, Robert H. Goddard, Boris Shaposhnikov, and René Coty. Among people deceased in 1945, Hans Geiger ranks 55. Before him are Karl-Otto Koch, Karl Hanke, Theodore Dreiser, Franz Werfel, Vladimir Vernadsky, and Edgar Cayce. After him are Edith Frank, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Margot Frank, René Lalique, Robert H. Goddard, and Fumimaro Konoe.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans Geiger ranks 579 out of 6,142. Before him are Prince Leopold of Bavaria (1846), Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia (1907), Rudolf von Jhering (1818), George Grosz (1893), Simon Marius (1573), and Rudolf Mössbauer (1929). After him are Michael Thonet (1796), Ludwig Tieck (1773), Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria (1839), Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1858), Hans Luther (1879), and Philipp Scheidemann (1865).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Hans Geiger ranks 27. Before him are Ernst Abbe (1840), Arno Allan Penzias (1933), Hans Georg Dehmelt (1922), Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742), Karl Schwarzschild (1873), and Rudolf Mössbauer (1929). After him are Polykarp Kusch (1911), Gerd Binnig (1947), Wolfgang Paul (1913), Herbert Kroemer (1928), Max Delbrück (1906), and Carl von Linde (1842).

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