Born: 10-Aug-1913
Birthplace: Lorenzkirch, Germany
Died: 6-Dec-1993
Location of death: Bonn, Germany
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Religion: Lutheran
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist

Nationality: Germany
Executive summary: Co-Inventor of the ion trap

Father: Theodor Paul (professor of chemistry, d. 1928)
Mother: Elisabeth Ruppel
Wife: Liselotte Hirsche (m. for 36 years, d.)
Daughter: Jutta (art historian)
Daughter: Regine (pharmacist)
Son: Lorenz (physicist)
Son: Stephan Paul (physics professor at TU-Munich)
Wife: Dr. Doris Walch-Paul (m. 1979)

    University: Technische Hochschule München (-1934)
    University: Technische Hochschule in Berlin (1937)
    Professor: Professor Ordinarius, University of Kiel
    Teacher: Privatdozent, University of Göttingen (1944-50)
    Professor: University of Göttingen (1950-)
    Professor: University of Bonn (1952-)

    Nobel Prize for Physics 1989 (with Hans G. Dehmelt and Norman F. Ramsey)

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