Talk:Hans Geiger

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[edit] Contradiction

The article states in the first paragraph that Geiger invented the Geiger Counter with Walther Müller, but later it states that Ernest Rutherford was the other inventor - which is it?

I've fixed it. The original version was created with Rutherford, and an improved version was created with Müller. Tim314 01:29, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Headline text

Everything]]" in the footnote on page 183, which is a very thoroughly-researched book with 17 pages of bibliography. Does anyone know another(online or tree-based) reference on that, the nearest i can find is [1], which doesn't explicitly say he was a Nazi, but does tell of how his feelings towards his jewish colleagues changed when the Nazis came to power. boffy_b 21:25, 2005 May 12 (UTC)

[edit] Alleged "betrayal" of his Jewish colleagues

I deleted the following sentence from the article: His loyalty to the Nazi Party led him to betray his Jewish colleagues, many of whom had helped him in his research before he became a member of the Nazi Party. The only given source is the webpage A page which mentions Geiger's lack of solidarity towards his Jewish colleagues in the external source section. Having read through this page, I only found that he wrote back a letter without sympathies to one Jewish colleague, without real information about the content of this letter given. So, the accusation "he betrayed his Jewish colleagues" (plural) seems much too far fetched to me. With a phrase like this the uninformed reader might think that he actively reported colleagues to the Nazis or helped in deporting his colleagues. Unless more credible sources are given, I think that the former mentioned sentence should be deleted, and that's what I did. Cheers, MikeZ 07:49, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

And the link is now dead, so I have removed it. -anon

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