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Wolfgang Paul

Wolfgang Paul
Wolfgang Paul, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993)

Wolfgang Paul was a German physicist, who co-developed the non-magnetic quadrupole mass filter which laid the foundation for what is now called an ion trap. He shared one-half of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989 for this work with Hans Georg Dehmelt; the other half of the Prize in that year was awarded to Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr.

10 August 1913

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