Nobel Prize for Physics (1954) Max Planck Medal (1953) Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts (1952)
Scientific career
Fields
Physics, mathematics, chemistry
Institutions
University of Berlin University of Giessen University of Heidelberg Max Planck Institute for Medical Research
Doctoral advisor
Max Planck
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Walther Wilhelm Georg Bothe (German pronunciation:[ˈvaltɐˈboːtə]ⓘ; 8 January 1891 – 8 February 1957)[2] was a German nuclear physicist know for the development of coincidence methods to study particle physics.
He served in the military during World War I from 1914, and he was a prisoner of war of the Russians, returning to Germany in 1920. Upon his return to the laboratory, he developed and applied coincidence circuits to the study of nuclear reactions, such as the Compton effect, cosmic rays, and the wave–particle duality of radiation, for which he would receive a share of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954.
In 1930, he became a full professor and director of the physics department at the University of Giessen. In 1932, he became director of the Physical and Radiological Institute at the University of Heidelberg. He was driven out of this position by elements of the deutsche Physik movement. To preclude his emigration from Germany, he was appointed director of the Physics Institute of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research (KWImF) in Heidelberg. There, he built the first operational cyclotron in Germany. Furthermore, he became a principal in the German nuclear energy project, also known as the Uranverein (Uranium Club), which was started in 1939 under the supervision of the Army Ordnance Office.
In 1946, in addition to his directorship of the Physics Institute at the KWImf, he was reinstated as a professor at the University of Heidelberg. From 1956 to 1957, he was a member of the Nuclear Physics Working Group in Germany.
In the year after Bothe's death, his Physics Institute at the KWImF was elevated to the status of a new institute under the Max Planck Society and it then became the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics. Its main building was later named Bothe laboratory.
Walther Wilhelm Georg Bothe (German pronunciation: [ˈvaltɐ ˈboːtə] ; 8 January 1891 – 8 February 1957) was a German nuclear physicist know for the development...
in particle detectors and in other areas of science and technology. WaltherBothe shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1954 "...for his discovery of...
Diebner, advisor to the HWA, and held in Berlin. The invitees included WaltherBothe, Siegfried Flügge, Hans Geiger, Otto Hahn, Paul Harteck, Gerhard Hoffmann...
group included the physicists WaltherBothe, Robert Döpel, Hans Geiger, Wolfgang Gentner (probably sent by WaltherBothe), Wilhelm Hanle, Gerhard Hoffmann...
artist and educator Roger Bothe (born 1988), American soccer player Sabine Bothe (born 1960), German handball goalkeeper WaltherBothe (1891–1957), German nuclear...
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experimental nuclear physicist from Erlangen, Bavaria. He worked for WaltherBothe at the Physics Institute of the University of Heidelberg and then at...
fusion of the two particles, releasing energetic neutrons. In 1930 WaltherBothe and Herbert Becker in Germany found that alpha particles striking light...
of prominent directors, which included the physicists and chemists WaltherBothe, Peter Debye, Albert Einstein, Fritz Haber and Otto Hahn; a board of...
Netherlands (2000) Friedrich Ludwig Dulon (1769–1826), flutist and composer WaltherBothe (1891–1957), physicist and Nobel laureate Carl Gustav Hempel (1905–1997)...
table as proposition 5.101 of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921). WaltherBothe, inventor of the coincidence circuit, got part of the 1954 Nobel Prize...
table as proposition 5.101 of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921). WaltherBothe, inventor of the coincidence circuit, got part of the 1954 Nobel Prize...
Martin Stratmann (2014–2023) Patrick Cramer (since 2023) Nobel laureates WaltherBothe (1954) Karl Ziegler (1963) Feodor Lynen (1964) Manfred Eigen (1967)...
shown to be in conflict with experiment. WaltherBothe won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954 for the Bothe–Geiger coincidence experiment that experimentally...
Fritz Albert Lipmann Winston Churchill George Marshall 1954 Max Born; WaltherBothe Linus Pauling John Franklin Enders; Frederick Chapman Robbins; Thomas...
A second cyclotron was built in Heidelberg under the supervision of WaltherBothe and Wolfgang Gentner, with support from the Heereswaffenamt, and became...
form of coincidence or anti-coincidence design. In 1924, physicists WaltherBothe and Hans Geiger used the coincidence method to probe the Compton scattering...
group included the physicists WaltherBothe, Robert Döpel, Hans Geiger, Wolfgang Gentner (probably sent by WaltherBothe), Wilhelm Hanle, Gerhard Hoffmann...
German physicists who had used the facilities included Kurt Diebner, WaltherBothe, and Erich Bagge, all of whom were known to be associated with the German...
Hans Adolf Krebs (Physiology or Medicine) 1954 Max Born (Physics) 1956 WaltherBothe (Physics) 1986 Ernst Ruska (Physics) 1991 Bert Sakmann (Physiology or...
WaltherBothe (1891–1957), German nuclear physicist and Nobel laureate Walther von Brauchitsch (1881–1948), German World War II field marshal Walther...
research organizations; its board of directors included scientists like WaltherBothe, Peter Debye, Albert Einstein, and Fritz Haber. In 1946, Otto Hahn assumed...
proportional to the square of its magnitude.) In 1954, together with WaltherBothe, Born was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for this and other work...
sustained nuclear chain reaction. The group included the physicists WaltherBothe, Robert Döpel, Hans Geiger, Wolfgang Gentner, Wilhelm Hanle, Gerhard...
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