Walther Müller was a German physicist who lived from 1905 to 1979, born in Hanover and dying in Walnut Creek, California. He is best known for his improvement of Hans Geiger's counter for ionizing radiation, which is now known as the Geiger-Müller tube. He studied physics, chemistry and philosophy at the University of Kiel, and in 1925 he became the first doctoral student of Hans Geiger, who had just taken a professorship in Kiel. Their work on the ionization of gases by collision led to the invention of the Geiger-Müller counter.
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Walther Müller (6 September 1905, in Hanover, 4 December 1979, in Walnut Creek, California) was a German physicist, most well known for his improvement of Hans Geiger's counter for ionizing radiation, now known as the Geiger-Müller tube.
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most well known for his improvement of Hans Geiger's counter for ionizing radiation
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