Nobel Prize

I was born August 27, 1915 in Washington, D.C. My mother, daughter of German immigrants, had been a mathematics instructor at the University of Kansas. My father, descended from Scottish refugees and a West Point graduate, was an officer in the Army Ordnance Corps. His frequently changing assignments took us from Washington, DC to Topeka,…

    The works of Wolfgang Paul, which led to the Paul trap, are based on investigations of the properties of electric and magnetic so called multipoles. A common magnet has two poles and is called a dipole, one with four poles, a quadrupole, one with six, a hexapole etc. Paul has shown that a…