This article is about the German physicist. For the Austrian-Swiss physicist who received the Nobel Prize in 1945, seeWolfgang Pauli. For the German footballer, seeWolfgang Paul (footballer).
He developed techniques for trapping charged particles in mass spectrometry by electric quadrupole fields in the 1950s.[3]Paul traps are used extensively today to contain and study ions. He developedmolecular beam lenses and worked on a 500 MeV electron synchrotron, followed by one at 2500 MeV in 1965. Later he worked on containing slow neutrons in magnetic storage rings, measuring the free neutron lifetime.
In 1957, Paul was a signatory of theGöttingen Manifesto, a declaration of 18 leading nuclear scientists of West Germany against arming the West German army withtactical nuclear weapons.
