Who was Hans Geiger?
Q: Who was Hans Geiger?
A: Hans Geiger was a German physicist who 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.
Q: Where was he born?
A: He was born at Neustadt an der Haardt, Germany.
Q: What did he study in university?
A: He studied physics and mathematics at the University of Erlangen and was awarded a doctorate in 1906.
Q: Who did he work with?
A: He worked with Ernest Rutherford at the University of Manchester, Ernest Marsden, John Mitchell Nuttall, James Chadwick, and Walther Müller.
Q: What famous experiment did they conduct together?
A: They conducted the famous Geiger–Marsden experiment called the "gold foil experiment".
Q: What law did they discover together?
A: They discovered the Geiger–Nuttall law (or rule).
Q: How many siblings did he have?
A: He had four siblings - three sisters and one brother that were all younger than him.
