Paul Hermann Scherrer was a Swiss physicist. Born in St. Gallen, Switzerland, he studied at Göttingen, Germany, before becoming a lecturer there. Later, Scherrer became head of the Department of Physics at ETH Zurich.
- Occupation
- physicist, university teacher, nuclear physicist, crystallographer
- Citizenship
- Switzerland
- Born
- February 3, 1890
- Died
- September 25, 1969