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What was hans geiger famous for?

He created the geiger counter, which measures radioactive activity.


What did Hans giger invent?

The Geiger counter was originally invented by Hans Geiger. The Geiger counter is a device that measures the relative radioactivity of a sample.


What wellknon instrumnt measures radioactivity?

a geiger counter


What does an geigercounter measure?

A geiger counter measures radioactivity.


A geiger counter measures radiation indirectly by measuring?

Levels of radioactivity are measured by a Geiger counter. Hans Geiger and Walter Muller created a practical radiation counter in 1928.


What instrument measures the emission of nuclear radiation?

A Geiger counter.


What is a radioactive device that causes a speaker to click when a charged particle passes through it?

This device is called a Geiger Counter, or sometimes a Geiger-Muller counter, which measures alpha particle concentration. It was developed by Hans Geiger and Walther Muller in the early 1900's.


What geiger counter measure?

A geiger counter measures radioactivity. It detects the emission of nuclear radiation from alpha particles, beta particles, and gamma rays.


What is a geiger counter and how do you use it?

A Geiger counter is a particle detector that measures Ionizing radiation, and emissions from nuclear radiation. Many of the Geiger counters are hand held and can be read from a screen on the front.


What is Geiger meter?

A Geiger counter, also called a Geiger-Müller counter, is a type of particle detector that measures ionizing radiation. They are notable for being used to detect if objects emit nuclear radiation.


In 1913 Hans Geiger invented the Geiger what?

Hans Geiger invented the Geiger counter, a device used to detect and measure ionizing radiation. It works by counting the number of ionizing radiation particles that interact with a gas-filled detector, producing an audible click for each particle detected.


Instrument for detecting radioactivity?

A device generically called a Radiac, however there are dozens of different kinds of Radiacs which operate by different principles and measure different things. Some are:geiger-mueller counterrate meterionization chamber meterscintillation counterelectrometer dosimeterionization chamber dosimeterphotographic film dosimeter