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)

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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