The award of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics to Wolfgang Paul acknowledged developing the ion trap method. Electromagnetic trapping allowed charged particles to be isolated for precise spectroscopic study.
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Wolfgang Paul
Nobel Prize history for Wolfgang Paul based on the award records stored in the World History Database.
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