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Hans Geiger

Born on September 30, 1882

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Johannes "Hans" Wilhelm Geiger (30 September 1882 – 24 September 1945) was a German experimental physicist. He is known as the inventor of the Geiger counter, a device used to detect ionizing radiation, and for carrying out the Rutherford scattering experiments, which led to the discovery of the atomic nucleus.

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