Wolfgang Paul

Wolfgang Paul was a German physicist and university teacher born in 1913 and died in Bonn in 1993. He worked at the University of Bonn, the University of Göttingen, and the Technische Universität Berlin. His notable work includes the quadrupole ion trap. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics and the Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Physics.

Paul was educated at the Technische Universität Berlin and the Technical University of Munich. His doctoral advisor was Hans Kopfermann, and his doctoral student was Peter Toschek. He was a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the North Rhine-Westphalia Academy for Sciences and Arts, the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and the Göttingen Eighteen. He spoke German and worked in Bonn and Göttingen.