coincidence counter

coincidence counter

[kō′in·sə·dəns ‚kau̇nt·ər]
(electronics)
coincidence circuit
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Such a coincidence counter turned out to be very useful in measuring the short intervals of time between passage through one counter and the next.
For his coincidence counters, Bothe was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1954.
Coincidence counter
In 1930 Bothe, who had devised the coincidence counter (see 1929), became aware of strange radiations emerging from beryllium that had been exposed to bombardment with alpha particles, but he couldn't tell what the radiation consisted of.
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