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Hans Geiger
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Also Known As Johannes Wilhelm Geiger
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German experimental physicist (1882 to 1945) who developed the original particle-counting apparatus in 1908 under Ernest Rutherford at the University of Manchester, then partnered with his doctoral student Walther Muller in 1928 to build the sealed, portable Geiger-Muller tube, which could detect alpha, beta and gamma radiation where the earlier device detected only alpha particles.
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Developed the original 1908 particle-counting apparatus under Ernest Rutherford's supervision, then built the sealed Geiger-Muller tube with his doctoral student Walther Muller in 1928.
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Johannes "Hans" Wilhelm Geiger (30 September 1882-24 September 1945) was a German experimental physicist.
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