
Johannes Wilhelm "Hans" Geiger, (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. He was the brother of meteorologist and climatologist Rudolf Geiger...."
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September 30, 1882
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1945 |
September 24, 1945
Age 62
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