biography
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Hevesy, George Charles de
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pronunciation:
[heveshee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1885–1966)
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| biography:
| Chemist, born in Budapest, Hungary. He studied at Berlin and Freiberg, worked at Manchester under Rutherford (1911), then with Paneth at Vienna (1912–20). In 1923 he discovered, with the Dutch physicist Dirk Coster (1889–1950), the element hafnium at Copenhagen (Hafnia being the Latin name for the city). He was a professor at Freiburg University from 1926, but during World War 2 went to Sweden, where he became professor at Stockholm. He was awarded the 1943 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on isotopic tracer techniques. |
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