AKA Walther Wilhelm Georg Bothe

Born: 8-Jan-1891
Birthplace: Oranienburg, Germany
Died: 8-Feb-1957
Location of death: Heidelberg, Germany
Cause of death: unspecified

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

Nationality: Germany
Executive summary: Pioneer of nuclear spectroscopy

Military service: POW (taken by Russians, WWI)

Wife: Barbara Below (two children)

    University: PhD, University of Berlin (1908-12)
    Professor: Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt, Berlin, Germany (1913-30)
    Professor: University of Giessen (1930-32)
    Professor: University of Heidelberg (1932-57)

    Nobel Prize for Physics 1954 (with Max Born)
    Max Planck Medal 1953
    Taken Prisoner of War

Author of books:
Atlas of Cloud-Chamber Figures (1940, nonfiction)

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