ABSTRACT
Born: January 8, 1891; Oranienburg, Germany Died: February 8,1957; Heidelberg, West Germany Area of Achievement: Physics Contribution: Bothe was awarded the Nobel Prize
for his invention of the coincidence counting technique and for discoveries made using it, including the nature of cosmic rays and the fashion in which X rays interact with electrons. He was one of Germany's leading atomic scientists and constructed their first cyclotron.
