George de Hevesy - Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1943
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George de Hevesy

Prize
Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1943
for his work on the use of isotopes as tracers in the study of chemical processes
Citizenship
Hungary Hungary Sweden Sweden
Languages
Swedish, Hungarian
date of birth
8/1/1885
place of birth
Budapest
date of death
7/5/1966
place of death
Freiburg im Breisgau
Lived
80 years
educated at
  • University of Freiburg
    • academic degree: doctorate
    • end time: 1908
  • Piarist Gymnasium of Budapest
    • end time: 1903
  • Eötvös Loránd University
    • end time: 1904
  • Technische Universität Berlin
    • end time: 1907
member of
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 10/5/1947
  • Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
    • start time: 1929
    • end time: 1934
  • Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
    • start time: 1934
  • Pontifical Academy of Sciences
  • Royal Society of London
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  • Polish Academy of Learning
  • Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
employer
  • ETH Zurich
  • University of Copenhagen
  • University of Manchester
  • University of Freiburg
  • Stockholm University
  • University of Copenhagen Niels Bohr Institute
  • Eötvös Loránd University
field of work
  • chemistry
occupation
  • chemist
  • university teacher
doctoral student
  • Maximilian (Max) Karl Franz Pahl
position held
  • professor
work location
  • Freiburg im Breisgau
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