Walter Bothe
JAN 08, 2016
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.031129
On this date in 1891, Nobel laureate Walter Bothe was born in Oranienburg in the German Empire. He earned his doctorate under Max Planck in 1914 then served in the military during WW1 where he was captured and held as a prisoner of war by the Russians for five years. After the end of the war, he worked with Hans Geiger and published a paper on the coincidence method for determining if two events were simultaneous. That work and its applications led to his sharing the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics with Max Born.
Date in History: 8 January 1891
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