Auger, Pierre Victor (1899–1993)
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Pierre Auger was a French physicist who discoveredwhat became known as the Auger effect, a change in an atom from an excited to a lower energy state with the emission of an (Auger) electron. He became director general of the European Space Research Organisation (ESRO) in 1962.