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Paul Scherrer
Paul Scherrer | |
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| Born | Paul Hermann Scherrer 3 February 1890 |
| Died | 25 September 1969 (aged 79) Zürich, Switzerland |
| Nationality | Swiss |
| Alma mater | Swiss Federal Polytechnic University of Göttingen |
| Known for | Debye–Scherrer method Scherrer equation |
| Awards | Marcel Benoist Prize (1943) Honoris Causa doctorate by the Complutense University of Madrid (1966) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physicist |
| Institutions | ETH Zurich University of Göttingen |
| Doctoral advisor | Peter Debye |
| Doctoral students | Felix Boehm Egon Bretscher Hans Frauenfelder Bernd T. Matthias[1] Julius Adams Stratton Fritz Zwicky |
Paul Hermann Scherrer (3 February 1890 – 25 September 1969) was a Swiss physicist. Born in St. Gallen, Switzerland, he studied at Göttingen, Germany, before becoming a lecturer there. Later, Scherrer became head of the Department of Physics at ETH Zurich.[2][3][4][5]
- ^ Clogston, Albert M.; Geballe, Theodore H.; Hulm, John K. (1 January 1981). "Bernd T. Matthias". Physics Today. 34 (1): 84. Bibcode:1981PhT....34a..84C. doi:10.1063/1.2889985. ISSN 0031-9228. OCLC 4636531057. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
- ^ Huber, P. (1969). "Paul Scherrer: 1890-1969". Verhandlungen der Schweizerischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft. Wissenschaftlicher und Administrativer Teil (in German). 149: 284–289.
- ^ Mercier, R. (1970). "Paul Scherrer-Sonderegger (1890-1969)". Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles (in French). 70 (7): 345.
- ^ Kant, Horst (2005). "Neue Deutsche Biographie 22 (2005), pp. 704-705: Scherrer, Paul". www.deutsche-biographie.de (in German). Retrieved 4 April 2023.
- ^ Gisler, Monika (2023). Erzählte Physik: Paul Scherrer und die Anfänge der Kernforschung (in German). Chronos Verlag. Zürich. ISBN 978-3-0340-1714-5. OCLC 1372362197.
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