Johannes Wilhelm
(Hans)
Geiger
Born in Neustadt an der Haardt, Pfalz, Bayern, Deutsches Reich
Ancestors 
Son of Wilhelm Ludwig Geiger
and Maria (Plochmann) Geiger
Brother of
Rudolf Oskar Robert Williams Geiger [half]
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 62
in Potsdam, Sowjetische Besatzungszone
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Biography
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.
Johannes Wilhelm was born in 1882 in Neustadt an der Haardt. He was the son of Studienlehrer Dr. Ludwig Wilhelm Geiger and Marie Plochmann.[1]
Sources
- ↑ Church book Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Zentralarchiv der Evangelischen Kirche der Pfalz / Neustadt / Neustadt an der Weinstraße / Taufen 1877-17. Feb. 1884 Archion image 200
- Wikidata: Item Q57189, de:Wikipedia
- Hans Geiger on Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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