List of Famous people with last name Nier

Alfred Otto Carl Nier

First Name Alfred

Born on May 28, 1911

Died on May 16, 1994 (aged 82)

Born in United States of America, Minnesota

Alfred Otto Carl Nier was an American physicist who pioneered the development of mass spectrometry. He was the first to use mass spectrometry to isolate uranium-235 which was used to demonstrate that ²³⁵U could undergo fission and developed the sector mass spectrometer configuration now known as Nier-Johnson geometry.

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