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Georg von Hevesy

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Georg von Hevesy , 1885-1966, Hungarian physicist and chemist. He received the 1943 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the use of isotopes as tracers in studying chemical processes. Hevesy was the first to apply the radioactive tracer technique to biology, and he later used it in medical research. He also discovered X-ray fluorescence analysis. He was codiscoverer of hafnium, element 72 in the periodic table. Hevesy became an associate of the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Copenhagen, in 1920 and also of the Institute for Research in Organic Chemistry, Stockholm, in 1943. Author... Read more
hafnium
...symbol Hf) Silvery metallic element, one of the transition elements . Dutch physicist Dirk Coster and Hungarian chemist Georg von Hevesy discovered hafnium in 1923. Its chief source is as a by-product in obtaining the element zirconium . It is used as... Read more
Friedrich Adolf Paneth
...radium-D, a product of the radioactive decay of radium, are chemically inseparable, a fact which led him to develop, with Georg von Hevesy, the technique of isotopic labeling (see isotope ). Their work laid the foundation of modern radioactive tracer techniques... Read more

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