Major Accomplishments
The most major accomplishment of Hans Geiger would include his
invention of the "Geiger counter". At the
University of Manchester, Geiger conducted research with Ernest Rutherford. Together they ran experiments associated with
radioactivity. Then, in 1911 Geiger,
with the assistance of Rutherford created the first edition of the Geiger
counter. The device was designed to
measure the amount of alpha-particles being emitted. To this day the Geiger counter is still
relied on in many labs across the world.