The Nobel Prize in Physics 1989
Awarded on: 1989-10-12
"for the development of the ion trap technique"
Affiliations:
- University of Washington – Seattle, WA, USA
Hans G. Dehmelt
Born: 1922-09-09 in Görlitz, Prussia (now Germany)
Gender: male
Field: German physicist (1922–2017)
Biography
Hans Georg Dehmelt was a German and American physicist, who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989, for co-developing the ion trap technique with Wolfgang Paul, for which they shared one-half of the prize. Their technique was used for high precision measurement of the electron magnetic moment.