Geiger
6 lettersnounrareUpdated June 2026
Definition
Hans Geiger, the German physicist who co-invented the Geiger counter, a device used to detect and measure ionising radiation, active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
“The radiation safety course began with a brief history of Geiger and his pioneering work in nuclear physics.”
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