Wolfgang Paul

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Wolfgang Paul
University of Kiel
Doctoral advisorHans Kopfermann
Notes
He humorously referred to Wolfgang Pauli as his "imaginary part".[1]

Wolfgang Paul (German pronunciation:

Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr.

Early life

Wolfgang Paul was born on 10 August 1913 in

University of Kiel and after being drafted to the air force he finished his PhD in 1940 at the Technical University of Berlin
.

During

fissionable material for use in making nuclear weapons
.

Academic career

For several years he was a private lecturer at the

.

Scientific results

He developed techniques for trapping charged particles in mass spectrometry by electric quadrupole fields in the 1950s.

Paul traps are used extensively today to contain and study ions. He developed molecular beam
lenses and worked on a 500 MeV electron synchrotron, followed by one at 2500 MeV in 1965. Later he worked on containing slow neutrons in magnetic storage rings, measuring the free neutron lifetime.

He humorously referred to

imaginary part if their surnames were considered as complex numbers.[4]

Göttingen Manifesto

In 1957, Paul was a signatory of the

Göttingen Manifesto, a declaration of 18 leading nuclear scientists of West Germany against arming the West German army with tactical nuclear weapons
.

Sons

His son Stephan Paul is a professor of experimental physics at the Technical University of Munich. His son Lorenz Paul is a professor of physics at the University of Wuppertal.

Works

  • Paul, Wolfgang (1990). "Electromagnetic Traps for Charged and Neutral Particles". Reviews of Modern Physics. 62 (3): 531–540. .
  • Paul, Wolfgang; Steinwedel, Helmut (1953). "Ein neues Massenspektrometer ohne Magnetfeld". Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A. 8 (7): 448–450.
    S2CID 96549388
    .

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