Wolfgang Paul

This article is about the German physicist. For the Austrian-Swiss physicist who received the Nobel Prize in 1945, see Wolfgang Pauli. For the German footballer, see Wolfgang Paul (footballer).
Wolfgang Paul
Born(1913-08-10)10 August 1913
Lorenzkirch, Saxony, German Empire
Died7 December 1993(1993-12-07) (aged 80)
Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
NationalityGerman
Alma materTechnical University of Munich
Technische Universität Berlin
University of Göttingen
Known forIon traps
Quadrupole mass analyzer
AwardsNobel Prize in physics (1989)
UNSW Dirac Medal (1992)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsUniversity of Bonn
University of Kiel
Doctoral advisorHans Kopfermann
Notes
He humorously referred to Wolfgang Pauli as his "imaginary part".[1]

Wolfgang Paul (German pronunciation: [ˈvɔlfɡaŋ ˈpaʊ̯l] ⓘ; 10 August 1913 – 7 December 1993) was a German physicist, who co-developed the non-magnetic quadrupole mass filter which laid the foundation for what is now called an ion trap.[2] He shared one-half of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989 for this work with Hans Georg Dehmelt; the other half of the Prize in that year was awarded to Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr.

  1. ^ Gerald E. Brown and Chang-Hwan Lee (2006): Hans Bethe and His Physics, World Scientific, ISBN 981-256-610-4, p. 338
  2. ^ Toschek, Peter E. (July 1994). "Obituary: Wolfgang Paul". Physics Today. 47 (7): 76–77. Bibcode:1994PhT....47g..76T. doi:10.1063/1.2808585.