Geiger-Muller Zahlrohr
date: label: Date made
content: 1928?
name: label: maker
content: Muller, Walter
notes: label: Description
content: This “Zahlrohr” is a very early Geiger-Müller tube used to detect ionizing radiation. Hans Geiger (1882-1945), a German physicist, devised the basic principle in 1908. Twenty years later, now a professor at the University of Kiel, he and Walter Müller (1905-1979), a postdoctoral student, developed a working instrument. Müller donated this example to the Smithsonian in 1975.
label: Description
content: Ref: Heins Geiger und Walter Müller, “Das Elektronenzählrohr,” Physik Zeitschrift 29 (1928): 839-840.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Schleswig-Holstein, University of Kiel
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Modern Physics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. Walter Muller
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1977.0136.01
label: accession number
content: 1977.0136
label: catalog number
content: 1977.0136.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electron Tube, Counter, Tube, Zahlrohr
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: .02 m x .1 m; 1/16 ft x 5/16 ft