WOLFGANG PAUL, 80
WON NOBEL FOR PHYSICS
Author: Associated Press
Date: Wednesday, December 8, 1993
Page: 65
Section: OBITUARY
BONN -- Wolfgang Paul, who won the Nobel Prize in physics for developing
a technique for isolating ions and electrons, died in Bonn yesterday at the
age of 80.
Mr. Paul, director of nuclear physics research at Bonn University from the
1950s through 1980, had been ill for the past several weeks and died at his
home of heart failure, said his wife, Doris.
During World War II he was part of a team that researched isotope
separation, a method for producing fissionable material for an atomic bomb. He
later became an opponent of Germany possessing nuclear arms.
In 1989, Mr. Paul was named winner of the Nobel Prize in physics along
with Americans Norman F. Ramsey and Hans Dehmelt.
He was cited for being the first to develop a method to isolate ions and
electrons. The so-called "Paul Trap" permitted physicists to hold the
particles long enough to study them with precision.
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