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Hans Geiger was born Johannes Wilhelm Geiger in a small town in the Rhineland region of Germany on September 30th, 1882. ... Hans was the eldest of 5 Geiger children. ...
The German physicist Hans Geiger is most widely known for his invention of the Geiger counter and other groundbreaking research in the field of nuclear physics. Geiger and his English colleague Earnest Rutherford began researching and experimenting with radio active emissions in the first decade of the 1900s in Manchester University. ... In order to ameliorate the emissions readings of alpha particles, Geiger set his focus on inventing the prototype of his later refined Geiger counter. ... Using his brainchild machine Geiger, with the help of Rutherford, was the first to discover that alpha particles are doubly charged nuclear particles exactly the same as nucleus of a helium atom. In 1912 the Geiger-Nuttal law was named in honour of its discoverer, presenting the fact that radioactive atoms with short half lives will emit alpha particles at high speeds.
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