Walther Wilhelm Georg Bothe Facts
Walther Wilhelm Georg Bothe Facts
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| Walther Bothe was born in Oranienburg, Germany. |
| He studied physics at the University of Berlin where Max Planck was one of his professors. |
| In 1914 he earned a PhD in Physics. |
| He was captured by the Soviets during World War I and spent a year in Siberia. |
| He was released in 1920 and returned to Germany. |
| Beginning in 1920 he worked with H. Geiger at the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt in Berlin. |
| In 1924 he published a paper on his method of coincidence which states that when a single particle passes through two Geiger counters, the pulses from each are coincident in time. |
| By using banks of Geiger counters and Bothe's method of coincidence it is possible to determine the angular distribution of cosmic rays. |
| From 1920 to 1926 he worked on corpuscular theory of light. |
| In 1927 he published an important paper on light quanta and interference. |
| The corpuscular theory of light was supported by this work. |
| In 1929 he was able to demonstrate cosmic and ultraviolet rays by passing them through a Geiger counter array. |
| In 1930 he was a Professor Extraordinary at the University of Berlin. |
| He became Professor of Physics and Director of the Institute of Physics at the University of Giessen in 1930. |
| In 1930 he used alpha rays from polonium to create a new form of radiation. |
| This was the basis of the discovery of the neutron by James Chadwick in 1932. |
| In 1932 he moved to Heidelberg to become Director of the Institute of Physics at the University of Heidelberg. |
| While at Heidelberg he obtained funding for a cyclotron. |
| In 1934 he added Director of the Institute of Physics at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research to his resume. |
| He received the Max Planck Medal, and in 1952 he became a Knight of the Order of Merit. |
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