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Occupations Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations (601) Physical Scientists (333) Astronomers and Physicists (222) Physicists (206) 34. Citizens 34. Citizens Europe (450) Europe, central (117) Germany (98) 37. Worked for College or University 37. Worked for College or University Europe (232) Europe, central (70) Germany (64) Heidelberg (7) University of Heidelberg (7) Max Planck Society (22) Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine (3) 42. Affilliation with College or University 42. Affilliation with College or University Europe (535) Europe, central (165) Germany (154) Berlin (62) Humboldt University of Berlin (56) Alumni (32) Long-term academic staff (20) Heidelberg (27) University of Heidelberg (27) Long-term academic staff (10) 44. Memberships 44. Memberships A-D (656) B (102) Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (67) E-P (571) G (195) German Academy of Sciences at Berlin (32) H (88) Heidelberg Academy for Sciences and Humanities (28) R-T (460) R (448) Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences (54) S (49) Saxon Academy of Sciences (11) 45. Other Awards 45. Other Awards C-D (404) C (272) Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (11) M-N (333) M (172) Max Planck Medal (20) O-P (364) P (242) Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts (65) complete name: Walther Bothe nobel prize: physics award year: 1954 together with: Max Born prize share: Prize share: 1/2 rational: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1954 was divided equally between Max Born "for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction" and Walther Bothe "for the coincidence method and his discoveries made therewith." biography: Biography laureate facts: Facts laureate lecture: Lecture birth name: Walther Wilhelm Georg Bothe given name: Walter family name: Bothe occupation: physicist occupation: mathematician occupation: inventor occupation: chemist occupation: university teacher occupation: nuclear scientist field of work: physics work location: University of Giessen, Gießen, Gießen, Germany description: Walther Bothe was a German nuclear physicist, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954 with Max Born. In 1913, he joined the newly created Laboratory for Radioactivity at the Reich Physical and Technical Institute (PTR), where he remained until 1930, the latter few years as the director of the laboratory. He served in the military during World War I from 1914, and he was a prisoner of war of the Russians, returning to Germany in 1920. Upon his return to the laboratory, he developed and applied coincidence methods to the study of nuclear reactions, the Compton effect, cosmic rays, and the wave-particle duality of radiation, for which he would receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954. In 1930 he became a full professor and director of the physics department at the University of Giessen. In 1932, he became director of the Physical and Radiological Institute at the University of Heidelberg. He was driven out of this position by elements of the deutsche Physik movement. To preclude his emigration from Germany, he was appointed director of the Physics Institute of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research (KWImF) in Heidelberg. There, he built the first operational cyclotron in Germany. Furthermore, he became a principal in the German nuclear energy project, also known as the Uranium Club, which was started in 1939 under the supervision of the Army Ordnance Office. In 1946, in addition to his directorship of the Physics Institute at the KWImf, he was reinstated as a professor at the University of Heidelberg. From 1956 to 1957, he was a member of the Nuclear Physics Working Group in Germany. In the year after Bothe's death, his Physics Institute at the KWImF was elevated to the status of a new institute under the Max Planck Society and it then became the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics. Its main building was later named Bothe laboratory. image copyright: Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. image citation: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1954. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1954/summary/> date birth: 1891 date death: 1957 usual name: Walther Bothe
