Hans Georg Dehmelt

Hans Georg Dehmelt (born September 9, 1922 – 7 March 2017, in Görlitz, Germany) is a German-born American physicist, who co-developed the ion trap technique with Wolfgang Paul, for which they both received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989. Their technique was used for high precision measurement of the electron magnetic moment. Quotes In closing, I should like to cite a line from William Blake. “To see a world in a grain of sand - - - ” and allude to a possible parallel to see worlds in an electron. concluding his Nobel lecture referring to the richness of the physics of subatomic particles. External links Category:Academics from the United States Category:Physicists from the United States Category:Academics from Germany Category:Physicists from Germany Category:Prisoners Category:Nobel laureates in Physics Category:1922 births Category:2017 deaths Category:Nobel laureates from Germany Category:Nobel laureates from the United States Category:National Medal of Science laureates Category:Immigrants to the United States Category:Duke University faculty