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Also Known As Walther Wilhelm Georg Bothe
Born January 8, 1891 • Germany
Died February 8, 1957 (aged 66) • Heidelberg • West Germany
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1954)
Subjects Of Study Compton effect • cosmic ray • electromagnetic radiation • neutron • particle radiation • subatomic particle
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