11 Facts About Wolfgang Paul

Wolfgang Paul shared one-half of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989 for this work with Hans Georg Dehmelt; the other half of the Prize in that year was awarded to Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr.

Wolfgang Paul was born on 10 August 1913 in Lorenzkirch, Germany.

Wolfgang Paul grew up in Munich where his father was a professor of pharmaceutical chemistry.

Wolfgang Paul followed his doctorate adviser Hans Kopfermann to the University of Kiel, and after being drafted to the air force, he finished his PhD in 1940 at Technische Universitat Berlin.

Wolfgang Paul became a professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Bonn and stayed there from 1952 until 1993.

Wolfgang Paul lectured in 1978 as distinguished scientist at the FERMI Institute of the University of Chicago and in a similar position at The University of Tokyo.

Wolfgang Paul developed techniques for trapping charged particles in mass spectrometry by electric quadrupole fields in the 1950s.

Wolfgang Paul developed molecular beam lenses and worked on a 500 MeV electron synchrotron, followed by one at 2500 MeV in 1965.

In 1957, Wolfgang Paul was a signatory of the Gottingen Manifesto, a declaration of 18 leading nuclear scientists of West Germany against arming the West German army with tactical nuclear weapons.

Wolfgang Paul's son Stephan Paul is a professor of experimental physics at the Technical University of Munich.

Wolfgang Paul's son Lorenz Paul is a professor of physics at the University of Wuppertal.