Wolfgang Paul

Infobox_Scientist
name = Wolfgang Paul

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birth_date = Birth date|1913|8|10
birth_place = Lorenzkirch, Saxony, Germany
death_date = Death date and age|1993|12|7|1913|8|10
death_place = Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
nationality = Germany
field = Physics
work_institution = University of Bonn
alma_mater = Technical University of Munich
Technical University of Berlin
University of Göttingen
doctoral_advisor = Hans Kopfermann
doctoral_students =
known_for = Ion traps
prizes = nowrap|Nobel Prize in physics (1989)
religion =
footnotes = Wolfgang Pauli humorously referred to him as his 'real part.'

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 on 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 being 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.

External links

* [http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1989/paul-autobio.html Autobiographical information at www.nobel.org]

References

*cite journal| title = Electromagnetic Traps for Charged and Neutral Particles
author = Paul W. | journal = Reviews of Modern Physics| volume = 62 | issue = 3 |pages = 531–540| year =1990| doi = 10.1103/RevModPhys.62.531
*cite journal| title = Ein neues Massenspektrometer ohne Magnetfeld
author = Paul W., Steinwedel H. | journal = Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A| volume = 8 | issue = 7 |pages = 448–450| year =1953

Persondata
NAME= Paul, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION= German Physicist
DATE OF BIRTH= August 10, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH= Lorenzkirch, Saxony, Germany
DATE OF DEATH= December 7, 1993
PLACE OF DEATH= Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany