biography
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Dehmelt, Hans G(eorg)
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pronunciation:
[duhmelt]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1922– )
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Görlitz, E Germany. He moved to the USA to perform research at Duke University (1952–5), then went to the University of Washington. As a graduate student he co-discovered nuclear quadruple resonance, in which certain nuclei placed in an electric field absorb radio-frequency energy. Experience gained there and in subsequent nuclear magnetic resonance research led to work with ion traps, which allowed the storage of single electrons and the measurement of H magnetic moment to high precision. He shared the 1989 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on trapping and studying ions. |
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