Wolfgang Paul

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This article is about the German physicist. For the Austrian-American physicist noted for his work on spin see Wolfgang Pauli. For the German footballer, see Wolfgang Paul (footballer).

Wolfgang Paul (August 10, 1913 – December 7, 1993) was a German physicist, who co-developed the ion trap. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989 for this work.

Wolfgang Paul was born 10 August 1913 in Lorenzkirch, Germany. He grew up in Munich where his father was professor for pharmaceutic chemistry. After the first few years at the Technical University of Munich he changed to the Technical University of Berlin in 1934 where he finished his Diplom in 1937 at the group of Hans Geiger. He followed his doctorate advisor Hans Kopfermann to the University of Kiel and after beeing drafted to the airforce he finished his phd in 1940 at the Technical University of Berlin. For several years he was private lecurere at the University of Göttingen with Hans Kopfermann. He became professor for Experimental Physics at the University of Bonn and stayed there from 1952 till 1993. For two years from 1965 until 1967 he was director of the Division of Nuclear Physics at CERN.

During World War II, he researched isotope separation, which is necessary to produce fissionable material for use in making nuclear weapons. His son, Stephan Paul, is a professor of experimental physics at the Technical University of Munich.

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