Paul, Wolfgang

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Paul, Wolfgang, 1913–93, German physicist, Ph.D. Technical Univ., Berlin, 1939. A professor at the Univ. of Bonn since 1952, Paul worked with Hans Dehmelt Dehmelt, Hans Georg (häns gā`ôrkh dā`məlt), 1922–, American physicist, b. Germany, Ph.D. Univ.
..... Click the link for more information. to develop an ion trap technique (known as the Paul trap), which made possible the detailed study of subatomic particles. For this invention, Dehmelt and Paul shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics with Norman F. Ramsey Ramsey, Norman Foster, 1915–, American physicist, b. Washington, D.C., Ph.D. Columbia Univ., 1940. A physics professor at Harvard after 1950, Ramsey also held several posts with such government and international agencies as NATO and the U.S.
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