Hans Geiger, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hans Geiger

German physicist

Date of Birth: 30-Sep-1882

Place of Birth: Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Date of Death: 24-Sep-1945

Profession: physicist, inventor, university teacher, nuclear physicist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Johannes Wilhelm "Hans" Geiger (; German: ['ga?g?]; 30 September 1882 – 24 September 1945) was a German physicist.
He 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.
He was the brother of meteorologist and climatologist Rudolf Geiger.