22 Facts About Walther Bothe

Walther Wilhelm Georg Bothe was a German nuclear physicist, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954 with Max Born.

Walther Bothe 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.

Walther Bothe was driven out of this position by elements of the deutsche Physik movement.

From 1908 to 1912, Walther Bothe studied at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat.

Walther Bothe was awarded his doctorate, in 1914, under Planck.

In 1913, Walther Bothe joined the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt, where he stayed until 1930.

At the PTR, Walther Bothe was an assistant to Geiger from 1913 to 1920, a scientific member of Geiger's staff from 1920 to 1927, and from 1927 to 1930 he succeeded Geiger as director of the Laboratory for Radioactivity.

In May 1914, Walther Bothe volunteered for service in the German cavalry.

Walther Bothe was taken prisoner by the Russians and incarcerated in Russia for five years.

Walther Bothe returned to Germany in 1920, with a Russian bride.

On his return from Russia, Walther Bothe continued his employment at the PTR under Hans Geiger in the Laboratory for Radioactivity there.

In 1925, while still at the PTR, Walther Bothe became a Privatdozent at the University of Berlin, which means that he had completed his Habilitation, and, in 1929, he became an ausserordentlicher Professor there.

In 1927, Walther Bothe began the study of the transmutation of light elements through bombardment with alpha particles.

In 1932, Walther Bothe had succeeded Philipp Lenard as Director of the Physikalische und Radiologische Institut at the University of Heidelberg.

In 1934, Lenard had managed to get Bothe relieved of his directorship of the Physical and Radiological Institute at the University of Heidelberg, whereupon Bothe was able to become the Director of the Institut fur Physik of the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut fur medizinische Forschung, in Heidelberg, replacing Karl W Hauser, who had recently died.

Walther Bothe held the directorship of the Institute for Physics at the KWImF until his death in 1957.

Fleischmann went with Walther Bothe and worked with him there until 1941.

The invitees included Walther Bothe, Siegfried Flugge, Hans Geiger, Otto Hahn, Paul Harteck, Gerhard Hoffmann, Josef Mattauch, and Georg Stetter.

Walther Bothe's value was too high; one conjecture being that this was due to air between the graphite pieces with the nitrogen having high neutron absorption.

From 1946, to 1957, in addition to his position at the KWImF, Walther Bothe was an ordentlicher Professor at the University of Heidelberg.

Walther Bothe was a German patriot who did not give excuses for his work with the Uranverein.

Walther Bothe was an accomplished painter and musician; he played the piano.