A Hungarian aristocrat who studied radioactivity at the University of Manchester under the direction of Ernest Rutherford. After successfully turning meat radioactive after injecting it with radium-D, Hevesy moved to Copenhagen to work with Niels Bohr. Working with a team led by Bohr, found element 72 on his first attempt.
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Chapter 12: Political Elements
In 1910, a Hungarian aristocrat named György Hevesy began studying radioactivity in Manchester, England, under Ernest Rutherford. Frustrated with his inability to separate...
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The legend surrounding Bohr was mostly a testament to people’s enthusiasm about quantum mechanics. Hevesy was nominated for the 1924 Nobel Prize but—in part due to the way he straddled...
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