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Hans Geiger was associated with Ernest Rutherford. When he moved to England, Hans Geiger became a laboratory assistant in Rutherford’s laboratory at the University of Manchester. Hans Geiger co-invented the Geiger Counter with Walther Muller in 1911. (James Chadwick.)Hans Geiger was awarded the Hughes Medal in 1929 “for his invention and development of methods of counting alpha and beta particles”. The Hughes Medal is an important award given to people who make important discoveries in Science. It has never been given to the same person more than once. Even though Geiger never won the Nobel Peace Prize, his work helped lead Ernest Rutherford to earning it. Rutherford looked over Geiger and Ernest Marsden’s experiments and their results and approached them in a different way. Because of Geiger’s and Marsden’s experiments, Rutherford was able to come up with his atomic theory, which led him to winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Hughes Medal 1929: Awarded by the Royal Society for "an original discovery in the physical sciences, particularly electricity and magnetism or their applications." Named for David Hughes, inventor of the microphone.
He never won a Nobel Peace Prize, but did, however help other scientist win one.
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Ernest Rutherford
Walther Muller
James Chadwick
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