Geiger was born in Neustadt an der Haardt (now Neustadt an der Weinstrasse) on September 30, 1882. After brief military service, he studied physics at the universities of Munich and Erlangen. In 1906, he received his doctoral degree from Erlangen....

Hans Geiger (1882-1945) invented the Geiger counter. Hans Geiger was a German nuclear physicist best known for his invention of the Geiger counter, a device used for counting atomic particles, and for his pioneering work in nuclear physics with Ernest...

Hans Geiger was a German nuclear physicist best known for his invention of the Geiger counter, a device used for counting atomic particles, and for his pioneering work in nuclear physics with Ernest Rutherford. Johannes Wilhelm Geiger was born in...

1882-1945 German nuclear physicist who developed various instruments and techniques for measuring charged nuclear particles—the most famous of which is the Geiger-Müller counter, commonly referred to as the Geiger counter. Geiger invented...

Johannes (Hans) Wilhelm Geiger (September 30, 1882 – September 24, 1945) was a German physicist. He is perhaps best-known as the co-inventor of the Geiger counter, and for the Geiger-Marsden experiment which discovered the atomic nucleus. Geiger...

Richard A. Geiger, 86, of St. Anne's Retirement Community died Sunday at his residence. He was the husband of the late Elsie Krupa Geiger who died in June, 2006. They would have celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary in September, 2006. For 45 years he...

I find it odd and more than slightly uncomfortable that I should have been elected to attempt to make George Geiger, the greatest teacher I have ever known, and in many ways the most elusive personality, somehow alive and present to you in...