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Geiger
[ gahy-ger ]
noun
- Hans [hahns], 1882–1947, German physicist.
Geiger
/ ˈɡaɪɡə /
noun
- GeigerHans18821945MGermanSCIENCE: physicist Hans (hans). 1882–1945, German physicist: developed the Geiger counter
Geiger
/ gī′gər /
- German physicist who was a pioneer in nuclear physics. He invented numerous instruments and techniques used to detect charged particles, including the Geiger counter (1908).
Example Sentences
He brought a chunk of the dark stuff with him, and the store’s owner happened to be Geiger-counting some samples.
In a tunnel 40 feet beneath the surface of the Greenland ice sheet, a Geiger counter screamed.
For some people the Geiger counter is alarming," Kunisawa says, "if it goes off.
It was the Geiger Grade, a mile and a half from the summit: Black as your hat was the night, and never a star in the heavens.
In 1832 Robiquet discovered codeine; and in 1833 atropine, aconitine, and hyoscyamine were distinguished by Geiger and Hesse.
Geiger speaks of a child who knew only one boy, and all the other boys were Otho to him because this first boy was called Otho.
An indirect but very interesting method of determining e was devised independently by Regener and by Rutherford and Geiger.
More thoroughly studied some time after by Geiger and Hesse, who confirmed Mein's results.
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