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{{Short description|French physicist}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Pierre Victor Auger | image = 9. Tagung 1959 Physiker stehend P. Auger,Paris, Otto Hahn - W134Nr.058141 - Willy Pragher (cropped).jpg | caption = Pierre Auger (1959) | image_size = 200px | birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1899|5|14}} | birth_place = [[Paris]], France | death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1993|12|24|1899|5|14}} | death_place = [[Paris]], France | residence = | citizenship = | nationality = [[French people|French]] | ethnicity = | field = [[Physics]] | work_institutions = [[Académie des sciences (France)]] | alma_mater = [[University of Paris]] | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | known_for = [[Air shower (physics)|Air shower]]<br>[[Cosmic rays]]<br>[[Auger effect]]<br>[[Auger electron spectroscopy]]<br>[[Carrier generation and recombination#Auger recombination|Auger recombination]] | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | influences = | influenced = | prizes = [[Kalinga Prize]] (1971)<br>[[Three Physicists Prize]] (1967) | religion = | footnotes = | signature = }} '''Pierre Victor Auger''' ({{IPA|fr|oʒe}}; 14 May 1899 – 24 December 1993) was a French [[physicist]], born in Paris. He worked in the fields of [[atomic physics]], [[nuclear physics]], and [[cosmic ray]] physics.<ref name="bio">{{cite journal | author= Lars Persson | title= Pierre Auger-A Life in the Service of Science | journal=Acta Oncologica | volume=35 | issue=7| year=1996| pages=785–787 | doi=10.3109/02841869609104027| pmid= 9004753 }}</ref> He is famous for being one of the discoverers of the [[Auger effect]], named after him.
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