The Nobel Prize in Physics 1989
Awarded on: 1989-10-12
"for the development of the ion trap technique"
Affiliations:
- University of Bonn – Bonn, Germany
Wolfgang Paul
Born: 1913-08-10 in Lorenzkirch, Germany
Gender: male
Field: German physicist
Biography
Wolfgang Paul was a German physicist, who co-developed the non-magnetic quadrupole mass filter which laid the foundation for what is now called an ion trap. He shared one-half of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989 for this work with Hans Georg Dehmelt; the other half of the Prize in that year was awarded to Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr.