Walther Bothe
Physicist, Academic
1891 – 1957
Who was Walther Bothe?
Walther Wilhelm Georg Bothe was a German nuclear physicist, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954 with Max Born.
In 1913, he joined the newly created Laboratory for Radioactivity at the Reich Physical and Technical Institute, where he remained until 1930, the latter few years as the director of the laboratory. He served in the military during World War I from 1914, and he was a prisoner of war of the Russians, returning to Germany in 1920. Upon his return to the laboratory, he developed and applied coincidence methods to the study of nuclear reactions, the Compton effect, cosmic rays, and the wave-particle duality of radiation, for which he would receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954.
In 1930 he became a full professor and director of the physics department at the University of Giessen. In 1932, he became director of the Physical and Radiological Institute at the University of Heidelberg. He was driven out of this position by elements of the deutsche Physik movement. To preclude his emigration from Germany, he was appointed director of the Physics Institute of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg.
We need you!
Help us build the largest biographies collection on the web!
- Born
- Jan 8, 1891
Oranienburg - Also known as
- Walter Bothe
- Spouses
- Religion
- Lutheranism
- Nationality
- Germany
- Netherlands
- Profession
- Education
- Humboldt University of Berlin
- Employment
- Max Planck Institute for Physics
- Humboldt University of Berlin
- Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg
- Died
- Feb 8, 1957
Heidelberg
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
Citation
Use the citation below to add to a bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"Walther Bothe." Biographies.net. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 29 Apr. 2024. <https://www.biographies.net/people/en/walther_bothe>.
Discuss this Walther Bothe biography with the community:
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In