Wolfgang Wilhelm Richard Franz Joachim Meckbach, German-born Argentine atomic physicist (Frankfurt aus Meno, Hessen Province 22 May 1919 – San Carlos de Bariloche 31 August 1998)

Expert on microwave spectroscopy

With Manlio Abele. Design and performance of a hot cathode magnetically collimated arc discharge ion source. Rev. Sci. Instrum. 30:335, 1959

Discovered the non-existence of isotope effect in charge changing collisions

With E.R. Salvatelli & G. Lantschner. Search for a possible isotope effect in charge changing collisions involving hydrogen and deuterium. J. Physics B2:772, 1969 

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Asteroid 7971 Meckbach