ABSTRACT
A s tudent o f Rut herford, Ha ns G eiger, toge ther w ith E rich Regener, discovered the scintillation of α particles impacting on a z inc su l de s creen, m aking t he i mpact o f t he α pa rticle visible.3,4,11 Geiger developed and implemented t he mechanism of measuring the energetic impact of the charged helium nucleus, the Geiger counter.
