Geiger may refer to:
People
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Geiger (surname) Geiger is a German or French surname. In the German language ''Geiger'' means "violin player."
People with this surname
* Abraham Geiger (1810–1874), German reform rabbi
* Arno Geiger (born 1968), Austrian writer
* Dennis Geiger (disambiguatio ...
Places
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Geiger, Alabama
Geiger is a town in Sumter County, Alabama, United States. It incorporated in 1912.http://www.toursumtercounty.com/sumter-county-towns/geiger-alabama/ At the 2010 census the population was 170, up from 161 in 2000.
Geography
Geiger is located at ...
, a town
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Geiger (crater)
Geiger is a lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon
The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It is the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System and the largest and most massive relative to its parent planet, with a diame ...
, a lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon
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Geiger, South Sudan
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, a border town filled with refugees
Other
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Geiger counter, a device for detecting radiation
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Geiger–Müller tube, the sensing element of the a Geiger counter
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Geiger–Marsden experiment, a 1909 physics experiment
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Geiger–Nuttall law
In nuclear physics, the Geiger–Nuttall law or Geiger–Nuttall rule relates the decay constant of a radioactive isotope with the energy of the alpha particles emitted. Roughly speaking, it states that short-lived isotopes emit more energetic alp ...
, an empirical 1911 rule relating alpha decay energy to decay half-life
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Geiger tree
''Cordia sebestena'' is a shrubby tree in the borage family, Boraginaceae, native to the American tropics. It ranges from southern Florida in the United States and the Bahamas, southwards throughout Central America and the Greater Antilles. Com ...
(''Cordia sebestena''), a species of flowering plant
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Geiger (corporation)
Geiger is an advertising specialties company with more than 500 employees and more than 550 sales representatives. It is the industry's largest family-owned and family-managed distributorship and is based in Lewiston, Maine.
Initially named Geiger ...
, a promotional products company
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Geiger (comics)
''Avengers: The Initiative'' is a comic book series from Marvel Comics. Written by Dan Slott and Christos Gage with artwork initially by Stefano Caselli, Steve Uy and Harvey Tolibao, the series deals with the aftermath of Marvel's "Civil War" s ...
, a minor, teenage
Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics is an American comic book publishing, publisher and the flagship property of Marvel Entertainment, a divsion of The Walt Disney Company since September 1, 2009. Evolving from Timely Comics in 1939, ''Magazine Management/Atlas Co ...
super-heroine
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USNS ''Geiger'', a transport ship in the United States Navy
See also
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Giger (Swiss form)
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