AKA Hans Georg Dehmelt

Born: 9-Sep-1922
Birthplace: Görlitz, Germany

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Co-Inventor of the ion trap

Military service: German Army (captured, Battle of the Bulge)

Father: Georg Dehmelt (artillery officer)
Wife: Irmgard Lassow (d., one son)
Son: Gerd
Wife: Diana Dundore (physician)

    High School: Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster, Berlin (1940)
    University: University of Breslau (one year, under German Army in 1943)
    University: PhD, University of Göttingen (1950)
    Professor: University of Washington (1955-)

    Nobel Prize for Physics 1989 (with Wolfgang Paul and Norman F. Ramsey)
    Rumford Prize 1985
    National Medal of Science 1995
    Naturalized US Citizen 1961

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